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==Mktfag Report=

Disney, Dimon, & A China Debt Surge Lift Stocks As Economic Data Collapses

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Just keep repeating: "the market is not the economy".

Except that is the exact opposite of what former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan told the world this morning, explaining that much of the improvement has come from a rise in stock market prices:

He sees a “stock market aura” in the economy.

A rise of 10 percent in the S&P 500 corresponds to a 1 percent real GDP increase, he said. The S&P 500 has risen nearly 16 percent in 2019 and is on track for its best performance in history should current trends hold.

So who is right - Greenspan or the asset-gatherers and commission-takers?

China was weak on the week with ChiNext's worst week since before Thanksgiving (after rising for 9 straight weeks).

Mixed picture in Europe this week with Italy and France outperforming and Spain the laggard.

US futures show the moment that China credit and trade data hit, sending stocks soaring.

On the week, Trannies were the big winners as Small Caps clung to gains and The Dow scrambled today to get back to breakeven on the week…(despite utter desperation in the algos, The Dow ended the week red)

DISney lifted The Dow dramatically and sent NFLX lower.

Chevron tumbled as it bid for Anadarko.

And then there was JPM - which surged on record results and Dimon's bullish remarks - compared to Wells which was ugly.

(they both sucked-when you can move around the pile's on your balance sheet to achieve the result's you want it's not that hard to get a 'positive' result-Wells was moar honest about it than JPM imo)

Treasury yields were all notably higher on the week, led by the belly up 7-8bps.(that mean's medium to med-long term T-Notes)

10Y Yields rose back above 2.50%, back up to the March FOMC levels.

The Dollar Index (DXY) ended the week lower, back below the Maginot Line of 97.00 (as in DO NOT CROSS THIS)

For the seventh week in a row, China's Yuan was flat (thanks to a big jump overnight).

Bitcoin and Ethereum held on to gains for the week as Ripple and Litecoin tumbled.

(ha ha sucks to be you Bix!)

Despite the USD weakness, PMs were weaker (with silver slammed) as copper and crude gained.

Gold is trading at its 'richest' to silver (86.1x) since 1993. (this should tell you something-when everyone "hates" it, you should love it)

Commodities and rates are aligned in their view of reflation (nothing much)

Because, remember, fun-durr-mentals don't matter!!! ==Only global money supply does.==

(stick that in your pipe anon from this morning)

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-12/disney-dimon-china-debt-surge-lift-stocks-economic-data-collapses

(cap#3 is yesterday on NASDAQ-this was certainly short covering as if it were actual organic long buying the index would have risen substantially-it did not, see here:

What is Short Covering?

Short covering refers to buying back borrowed securities in order to close open short positions at a profit or loss. It requires the purchase of the same security that was initially sold short, since the process involved borrowing the security and selling it in the market. For example, a trader sells short 100 shares of XYZ at $20, based on the opinion those shares will head lower. When XYZ declines to $15, the trader buys back XYZ to cover the short position, booking a $500 profit from the sale. This process is also known as “buy to cover.”)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortcovering.asp

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=^DJI

Please visit this site for any unfamiliar terms

https://www.investopedia.com/dictionary/

Notable: >>6153769 Counter-terrorism operation ongoing in Russia. ISIS.

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1116792731647373312

Notable: Elizabeth Warren wants to end "beyond a resonable doubt" for criminal convictions.

Elizabeth Warren Wants To End "Beyond A Resonable Doubt" For Criminal Convictions

Each Friday we highlight a number of important, and often bizarre stories from around the world that my team and I are closely following:

Elizabeth Warren wants to destroy centuries of legal standards

To take your freedom requires more evidence than to take your money. For now.

Criminal convictions depend on the accused being guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. Civil convictions depend only on a preponderance of evidence pointing to guilt.

But Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill last week to apply criminal penalties to corporate executives found civilly liable for company misconduct.

And these criminal penalties would apply regardless of intent. Failure to stop a crime would be considered a crime itself, whether you knew about it or not.

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is speaking out against the proposed law, calling it a dangerous attempt to abandon “core principles of criminal law that have been part of the Anglo-American legal tradition for centuries.”

As a former Harvard Law Professor, Warren must understand the implications of this bill. And that makes her a very scary candidate to occupy the oval office.

But what else would we expect from this crop of rising Bolsheviks? Revolutions can’t abide by stale old ideas like rule of law.

Philadelphia becomes the first major US city to ban cashless stores

Two weeks ago we talked about a San Francisco politician trying to require all stores in the city to hire cashiers and accept cash.

Now Philadelphia has beat them to the punch. It is the first major US city to outlaw the coming innovation of cash/cashierless stores, like Amazon Go.

The excuse, of course, is that people without access to credit cards or bank accounts won’t be able to use those cashless stores.

Seems like it would be a lot easier for those people to continue going to the same stores where they are currently shopping, and allow other consumers who prefer to shop at Amazon Go to make their own decisions.

But no. Politicians’ zeal to stick it to Amazon outweighs everything else… so they choose instead to outlaw innovation at the expense of consumers.

Another victory for the Bolsheviks!

Genealogy companies go all in for the Federal Government

Two months ago, Family Tree DNA shared a database full of private customer DNA data with the federal government.

After a backlash from customers, the company changed their rules to allow people to opt out of sharing their DNA with law enforcement.

But now Family Tree DNA is preparing an advertising offensive called “Families Want Answers,” in an attempt to convince customers it is their “moral responsibility” to share their DNA with law enforcement.

The surveillance state continues to be built in the private sector, by willing participants.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-12/elizabeth-warren-wants-end-beyond-resonable-doubt-criminal-convictions

Notable: Wherever Putin goes, GPS stops working. Report tracking Russian GPS spoofing activity reveals.

Wherever Putin Goes, GPS Stops Working. Report Tracking Russian GPS Spoofing Activity Reveals

Wherever Russian President Vladimir Putin goes, GPS stops working properly, a study published by C4ADS (formerly the Center for Advanced Defense Studies), named “Above us only stars” concludes.

C4ADS as per its description is a “nonprofit organization dedicated to providing data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporting on global conflict and transnational security issues.” Its board of directors is primarily individuals connected to the US military, Congress, while some are distinguished scientists in their fields.

The report is powered by “Palantir,” the company that “knows everything about you”:

“Founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and some fellow PayPal alumni, Palantir cut its teeth working for the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. The company’s engineers and products don’t do any spying themselves; they’re more like a spy’s brain, collecting and analyzing information that’s fed in from the hands, eyes, nose, and ears.”

The analysis looks at GPS and GNSS spoofing and jamming by Russia, mostly wherever Putin goes. It is also used around sensitive sites around Russia, “its occupied territories,” and Syria.

The report begins with the observation: GPS and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are used in everything from cellular communication networks, to basic consumer goods, high-end military systems, and stock trading inputs.

“But these systems are vulnerable: by attacking positioning, navigational, and timing (PNT) data through electronic warfare (EW) capabilities, state and non-state actors can cause significant damage to modern militaries, major economies, and everyday consumers alike. With recent technological advances, the tools and methodologies for conducting this interference are now at a high risk for proliferation. GNSS attacks are emerging as a viable, disruptive strategic threat.”

By using publicly available data, C4ADS carried out a research by using publicly available data. It discerned the ability to mimic, or “spoof,” legitimate GNSS signals in order to manipulate PNT data.

According to the research spoofing is quite actively used in Russia, Crimea and Syria, and this in turn demonstrates that Russia is growing a comparative advantage in the targeted use and development of GNSS spoofing capabilities to achieve tactical and strategic objectives at home and abroad.

The research is separated into four sections looking into different cases of Russian state activity based on locations and the systems that were allegedly used:

In Section One – activity of GNSS spoofing is examined across Russia, “its occupied territories,” and overseas military facilities. In total 9,883 suspected instances across 10 locations that affected 1,311 civilian vessel navigation systems since February 2016 were identified.

In Section Two – the role of GNSS spoofing in VIP protection, mostly Vladimir Putin, but also others. According to the report, the Russian Federal Service (FSO) operates mobile systems to facilitate the activity. Review of Russian procurement data also even provided a possible mobile system that was manufactured by a company connected to the FSO.

In Section Three – the role of GNSS for strategic protection is looked into. Potential technology was used for facility protection in Moscow. Spoofing was also used in coastal regions of Russia and Crimea in the Black Sea. One of the sites is a “multi-million dollar ‘palace’ formerly owned by reported family members of senior FSO officers and previously reported to be built for President Putin.”

In Section Four – finally, Russian spoofing activity is looked into in active combat zones where Russia is present, Syria in particular.

Furthermore, according to the report, Russia has a clear advantage currently, but the low cost, commercial availability, and ease of deployment of these technologies will empower not only states, but also insurgents, terrorists, and criminals in a wide range of destabilizing state-sponsored and non-state illicit networks.

More

https://southfront.org/wherever-putin-goes-gps-stops-working-report-tracking-russian-gps-spoofing-activity-reveals/

Notable: Sudan military chief steps down a day after staging coup to topple long-time leader Omar al-Bashir.

https://twitter.com/BreakingDotUK/status/1116790849457639424

Notable: Facebook removes page of Ecuador's former President on same day as Assange's arrest.

Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador's Former President on Same Day as Assange's Arrest

Facebook has unpublished the page of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa, the social media giant confirmed on Thursday, claiming that the popular leftist leader violated the company’s security policies.

In a statement republished by Ecuadorean newspaper El Comercio, a company spokesperson said:

“Protecting the privacy and security of people is central to Facebook [and] we have clear policies that do not allow the disclosure of personal information such as phone numbers, addresses, bank account data, cards, or any record or data that could compromise the integrity physical or financial of the people in our community.”

The move comes on the same day that Ecuador’s government allowed British security personnel to enter their embassy in London to arrest journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been sought by U.S. officials for years due to his role in releasing scandalous information implicating Washington in a range of crimes, including war crimes.

#AlertaDigitalEC Página en Facebook del exPresidente @MashiRafael no puede ser accesada, se desconocen motivos – link https://t.co/aerBqw6kcl pic.twitter.com/87oTEW4lAI

— 𝓤𝓼𝓾𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓼 𝓓𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓼 (@usuariosdigital) April 12, 2019

Assange, 47, had been living at the Embassy of Ecuador in London since 2012, when then-President Correa granted political asylum to the Australian amid the British government’s attempts to detain him. At the time, Correa called Eduador’s actions an act of sovereign “duty.”

Ecuador’s current leader, Lenin Moreno, was openly opposed to Assange, whom he referred to on various occasions as a “miserable hacker,” an “irritant,” and a “stone in the shoe” of his government. Moreno’s distancing from the asylee came following a 2017 meeting with Trump campaign confidant and political “fixer” Paul Manafort, where the two discussed Ecuador’s handover of Assange to U.K. and U.S. authorities.

In March, WikiLeaks published a tranche of documents dubbed the INA Papers linking President Lenin Moreno to the INA Investment Corporation, an offshore shell company used by Moreno to procure furniture, property, and various luxury items.

The account number for the offshore account allegedly used by the president to launder money was shared across Ecuadorean social networks by netizens of all political stripes, including by Correa – who had about 1.5 million followers and whose Facebook page enjoyed more interactions and attention than that of President Moreno himself.

The account number was also shared alongside personal photos of President Moreno enjoying lavish breakfasts and dinners of lobster—imagery considered especially damning for the people of Ecuador given Moreno’s previous boasting of an austere poverty diet consisting of eggs and white rice.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/72123/facebook-removes-page-of-ecuadors-former-president-on-same-day-as-assanges.html

https://themindunleashed.com/2019/04/facebook-removes-rafael-correa-page.html

Notable: Honduran national charged with raping, murdering NJ jogger was deported twice .

Honduran National Charged with Raping, Murdering NJ Jogger Was Deported Twice

A Honduran national charged with raping and murdering a jogger in New Jersey had been deported twice before, the government reported.

Officials say that Jorge Rios, 33, was deported once in 2003 and then again in 2004, according to the New York Post.

Police arrested Rios after surveillance video allegedly showed him stalking his victim, 45-year-old Caroline Cano, then beating her, raping her, and brutally drowning her in a park lake when she was out for a morning run in Jersey City’s Lincoln Park on March 24.

Investigators said that immediately after the crime, Rios walked to a friend’s house and reportedly asked how many years he could get for murdering someone.

A criminal complaint against Rios said that Cano, a Peruvian, died “as a result of homicidal violence including strangulation and water submersion.” Police also said Rios confessed during questioning.

The complaint detailed the suspect’s actions on the surveillance video. “The male observes the victim and proceeds to walk behind her. Upon approaching the football parking lot, the victim is seen running with the male running directly behind her,” court documents state.

“The male is seen continuing south, stopping, turning to look behind him towards the victim, and then running in the same direction as the victim,” the papers add.

ICE put a detainer on Rios for deportation once again, but not until he serves his sentence for murder if convicted.

When Rios was arrested, federal immigration authorities slammed the New Jersey city for its “limited cooperation” with federal authorities on immigration issues.

“ICE maintains that cooperation by local law enforcement is an indispensable component of promoting public safety,” the Newark ICE office said in a statement on April 5. “ICE will seek taking custody of Rios-Doblado at the conclusion of his criminal proceedings, despite limited cooperation in the state.”

Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/04/12/honduran-national-charged-raping-murdering-new-jersey-jogger-deported-twice/

Notable: California governor makes new proposals to fight wildfires, PG&E shares rise.

California governor makes new proposals to fight wildfires, PG&E shares rise

(Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom released a report on Friday calling for the creation of funds to fight wildfires and proposed that state law should be reformed to reduce liability of utilities, sending PG&E Corp up nearly 12 percent.

Newsom’s report calls for changing liability for wildfire damage to a fault-based system. The current system, known as inverse condemnation, exposes the state’s utilities to liabilities from wildfires regardless of their negligence, as long as their equipment is involved.

The current system pushed PG&E to seek bankruptcy protection in January, as it faced liabilities in excess of $30 billion related to the deadliest wildfires in California’s history.

“Under the status quo, all parties lose – wildfire survivors, energy consumers and Californians committed to addressing climate change. The imperative now is on action,” Newsom said.

The report proposed creating two funds to help utilities pay for wildfire damage claims and spread the cost more widely among stakeholders.

Shares of Edison International also rose 7 percent at $66.8.

Edison International is the parent company of the utility Southern California Edison Co. Earlier in March, investigators found that the devastating Thomas Fire in northwest of Los Angeles was sparked by power lines owned by SoCal.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pg-e-us-california-plan-idUSKCN1RO2D3

Notable: >>6153332, >>6153364 Video and details of immolation man being carried away by USSS.

>>6153261

Vid of the man being carried away.

https://twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1116780951978356737

Notable: >>6152915 Security incident unfolding outside the White House. The secret service members have arrested one person

>>6152871

Update with video

#Breaking: Just in - Security incident unfolding outside the White House. The secret service members have arrested one person! Unknown if more are involved area is in lockdown. Video

https://twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1116779801124253696

Notable: Louisiana Diocese Releases List Of Accused Predator Priests

Louisiana Diocese Releases List Of Accused Predator Priests

The Catholic Diocese of Lake Charles, Louisiana, released the names of 12 diocesan clerics Thursday who were allegedly credibly accused of sexual abuse.

The list included the names of four priests, five members of religious orders from the diocese, one priest who served in the area before it became the Lake Charles diocese and two clerics who appear “on lists of other known perpetrators” but have never had an accusation reported in the diocese. Of those listed, eight have died, two are imprisoned, one is “prohibited from ministry” and another has been “sentenced to a life of prayer and penance.”

Those on the list served in the diocese at some point since its founding in 1980.

“To the best of my knowledge, we have reviewed and acted upon every report we have received,” Bishop Glen John Provost said in a video message posted on the diocesan website.

Provost also clarified in a letter that an ad hoc review board consisting of “a retired judge, a retired sheriff, and an attorney” compiled the list after reviewing the diocesan files and archives. The bishop noted that since the diocese is relatively new, names on its list may overlap with any list released by the Diocese of Lafayette.

The diocese of Lafayette, which promised to release a list of credibly accused priests on Friday, will be the last of Louisiana’s seven dioceses to release the names of alleged predator priests.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/11/louisiana-diocese-predator-list/

http://www.wafb.com/2019/04/11/diocese-lake-charles-list-credibly-accused-clergy/

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Notable: The White House is moving to dissolve the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

President Trump Is Eliminating A Major Federal Agency. The White House Told Us Why

The White House is moving to dissolve the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and reorganize the agency’s responsibilities into three existing departments in order to “drive what is needed to support the mission in all of government.”

“When we really look at the need for government overall, and we looked at the [OPM’s] design to support those needs, there was a fundamental structural misalignment between the challenges of today around our workforce and what OPM was conditioned to do,” Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting OPM director, told The Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.

The agency was formed in 1979 and tasked with managing the government’s civilian workforce, which includes healthcare, insurance and retirement benefits, as well as oversight and human resources policies for federal employees.

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to dismantle OPM, beginning in fall 2019, and divide its functions among three separate departments: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

The OPM is responsible for managing the majority of government security clearances. The restructuring would have the DOD oversee the massive background investigation operation. And GSA could soon take over OPM’s current human resources obligations, according to The Washington Post.

OMB would head the high-level policies that govern federal employees, but only three people from OPM are expected to transfer over to the executive office, a senior administration official explained to TheDCNF. However, those three individuals would be assigned new roles in the department.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/office-personnel-management-trump/

Notable: LIVE POTUS remarks on 5G depolyment

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1116772247190982657

the ever-elusive 5g conundrum

Notable: Cryptologic School Commandant Diane Janosek Cryptologic School Commandant Diane Janosek Notice "Q'

>>6152491

>https://twitter.com/NSAGov/status/1116774531195183104?s=20

Notable: Google Blasted For Labeling Anti-Abortion Film Unplanned’ As ‘Propaganda’

Google Blasted For Labeling Anti-Abortion Film Unplanned’ As ‘Propaganda’

Google is being blasted for labeling the new pro-life film “Unplanned” as “propaganda.”

The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Bolar posted a note on Twitter on Thursday that showed a screenshot of a Google search for the film, adding the caption: “Who knew that ‘propaganda’ was a movie genre? Google once again exposing its gross political bias.”

Google Blasted For Labeling Anti-Abortion Film Unplanned’ As ‘Propaganda’

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Google is being blasted for labeling the new pro-life film “Unplanned” as “propaganda.”

The Daily Signal’s Kelsey Bolar posted a note on Twitter on Thursday that showed a screenshot of a Google search for the film, adding the caption: “Who knew that ‘propaganda’ was a movie genre? Google once again exposing its gross political bias.”

“Unplanned” takes a critical look at Planned Parenthood. “As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled countless women on their reproductive choices,” Rotten Tomatoes says in a brief description of the film. “Her passion surrounding a woman’s right to choose led her to become a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood, fighting to enact legislation for the cause she so deeply believed in. Until the day she saw something that changed everything.”

Fox News got in touch with Google to ask about the label.

A Google spokesperson explained to Fox News that its “Knowledge Graph” analyzed web content on “Unplanned” and that a large volume of it described the film as propaganda and placed the label without a universal consensus.

“When we’re made aware of disputed facts in our Knowledge Graph, we work to fix the issues, as we’ve done in this case,” the spokesperson told Fox News. Google has updated the search results so that “propaganda” no longer appears as the genre.

After Bolar made her post, other responded.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/google-blasted-for-dubbing-anti-abortion-film-unplanned-propaganda/

Notable: Montgomery alleges that government wiretapped 17 Trump businesses, Trump Tower, Trump leasing programs, DJT himself and Trump family members

http://theamericanreport.org/2017/07/20/obamas-surveillance-hammer-trump-worse-watergate/

EXCERPTS:

Montgomery alleges that the U.S. government wiretapped 17 Trump businesses including Trump Tower, Trump leasing programs, Donald Trump himself and various Trump family members. All were wiretapped under the Obama administration. There has been a wiretap on Trump for years, according to Montgomery.

Although the suit does not identify the surveillance system by name, audio recordings released in 2015 by United States District Court Judge G. Murray Snow in Maricopa County, Arizona identify a secret government surveillance system called “the Hammer,” allegedly used to spy on Trump, 159 judges including Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, and millions of other Americans.

Klayman reported that Montgomery indicated that the surveillance program also targeted late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was found dead at an exclusive Texas hunting ranch in 2016.

According to an audio recording of Tim Blixseth, whose ex-wife worked with Montgomery at Blxware LLC of Bellevue, Washington, “the Hammer” was used to wiretap Donald Trump “a zillion times.”

A leaked CIA Information Operations Center document published in March 2017 WikiLeaks “Vault 7” dump identifies a CIA hacking tool called HAMR. A computer expert who worked for the military and a major government agency involved in defense who reviewed the leaked CIA document believes that the “Hammer” and “HAMR” refer to the same surveillance system.

“Montgomery laid out how persons like then-businessman Donald Trump were illegally spied upon by Clapper, Brennan, and the spy agencies of the Obama administration. He even claimed that these spy agencies had manipulated voting in Florida during the 2008 presidential election, illegal tampering that helped Obama win the White House.”

Montgomery told Rep. Devin Nunez, R-Calif., that he had the proof of wiretapping on Trump Tower. Nunez did nothing, according to Montgomery.

Montgomery states that Trump was wiretapped for years because, he alleges, the CIA feared Trump.

HAMR can “throw” browser exploits at iOS, Android, OSX and Linux hacking targets, according to the CIA Information Operations Center document. HAMR sends specified plugins from a collection of iOS plugins called “Wild Turkey” to targeted devices and installs (implants) them for surveillance operations.

HAMR appears to be a massive supercomputer system that was used to listen to phone calls not by tapping into telecommunication carrier switching stations and fiber optic cables, but instead by deploying or “throwing” malicious plugins at targeted computers and smartphones to collect the intercepts and then send the data back to the master supercomputer framework.

General Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.) called the situation revealed by Montgomery “worse than Watergate.” Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, US Army Reserve (Ret.) on Fox Business also described surveillance against Trump as “worse than Watergate.” Likewise, USA Today published an opinion piece referring to President Obama’s surveillance scandal as “worse than Watergate” and which also suggested that former Obama officials could face criminal prosecution

https://soundcloud.com/theamericanreport

All the recorded conversations between CIA/NSA Whistleblower, Dennis Montgomery, William Blixseth

Notable: Clockfag marks Sudan on the clock

SUDAN

ON THE CLOCK

Notable: Vice President Mike Pence twat: Huge portions of the Midwest have been impacted by historic flooding

POTUS_Schedule Retweeted

Vice President Mike Pence

‏Verified account @VP

6m6 minutes ago

Huge portions of the Midwest have been impacted by historic flooding. Today I saw farms across Iowa & Nebraska that have been devastated for years to come. @POTUS & I are committed to getting those impacted the help they need!

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1116764803878596608

Notable: Jeremy Corbyn, has publicly opposed UK’s possible extradition of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to the US

Pursued for ‘exposing evidence of US atrocities’: Corbyn opposes extradition of Assange

Published time: 11 Apr, 2019 20:25 Edited time: 12 Apr, 2019 09:16

British Commie Corbyn feeling the heat?

Leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has publicly opposed UK’s possible extradition of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to the US, saying he exposed evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

https://www.rt.com/uk/456286-corbyn-opposes-assange-extradition/

Notable: U.S. Marines twat: Last night, CMC_MarineCorps and 18thSMMC saluted the remains of Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman

Last night, @CMC_MarineCorps and @18thSMMC saluted the remains of Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, one of the three Marines killed in Parwan province, Afghanistan.

Til Valhalla, Marine.

twitter.com/USMC/status/1116757657593860096

Notable: CNN: There’s no evidence the Trump team was spied on

>>6151773

CNN: There’s no evidence the Trump team was spied on.

Also CNN: “British intelligence passed Trump associates' talks with Russian on to US counterparts”

#Idiots

twitter.com/dbongino/status/1116759370040135680

Notable: State Department has intervened to warn Poland over plannedexhumations on the site of a former ConcentrationCamp in Treblinka

@Polandin_com

The State Department has intervened to warn #Poland over planned #exhumations on the site of a former #ConcentrationCamp in #Treblinka

Notable: Anon links JA and Q. It has begun

So glad . . .

It has begun.

WWG1WGA

>>1916327

>JA in the news?

>It has begun.

Notable: GE to pay $1.5 billion U.S. civil fine over subprime mortgages

GE to pay $1.5 billion U.S. civil fine over subprime mortgages

(Reuters) - General Electric Co will pay a $1.5 billion civil fine to resolve a long-running U.S. investigation into defective subprime mortgages offered by its former WMC Mortgage unit prior to the 2008 global financial crisis.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday said the accord resolves claims that GE concealed the poor quality of the loans and WMC’s lax fraud controls when packaging the loans into residential mortgage-backed securities sold to investors.

WMC was acquired by GE’s finance unit General Electric Capital Corp in 2004, and originated more than $65 billion of mortgage loans in the next three years.

GE had in January announced an agreement in principle for Friday’s settlement, and had previously set aside $1.5 billion for the accord. The Boston-based company did not admit wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.

“This is another step in our ongoing efforts to de-risk GE Capital,” GE said in a statement. “This agreement represents a significant part of the total legacy exposure associated with WMC and we are pleased to put this matter behind us.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-settlement/ge-to-pay-1-5-billion-u-s-civil-fine-over-subprime-mortgages-idUSKCN1RO233

Notable: >>6151787 Anons dig on Ray Chandler WH visitor logs 2009-2014

>>6151670

>>6151681

First, TYB!

Then, since you all asked, here is Chandler’s White House Visitor Logs with Sauce, and a Kissinger thrown in for free.

Notable: Georgia Ethics Chief to Subpoena Stacey Abrams’ Gubernatorial Campaign

I hope they drag every piece of dirt out on her.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/12/georgia-ethics-chief-to-subpoena-stacey-abrams-gubernatorial-campaign/#

Notable: Mark Meadows twat: Dems trying to shift the debate

https://twitter.com/RepMarkMeadows/status/1116752420590301185

Notable: >>6151509 Mike Pompeo Wants China to Join Russia in START Nuclear Treaty

Carnegie Nuclear Policy @carnegienpp

Mike Pompeo Wants China to Join Russia in START Nuclear Treaty via @japantimes

https://twitter.com/carnegienpp/status/1116751606324834304

Notable: Republicans Oversight Committee twat: review security clearance practice in Obama Admin

https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1116741115800059904

Notable: DJT twat on dumping illegals in sanctuary cities

>>6151283

He should do exactly that until the law is changed.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1116746157043126273

Notable: Statement from POTUS on (ICC) rejected request to investigate American military and intelligence professionals who served in Afghanistan

Statement from the President

LAW & JUSTICE

Issued on: April 12, 2019

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Today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced its unanimous rejection of a request to investigate American military and intelligence professionals who served in Afghanistan. This is a major international victory, not only for these patriots, but for the rule of law. We welcome this decision and reiterate our position that the United States holds American citizens to the highest legal and ethical standards. Since the creation of the ICC, the United States has consistently declined to join the court because of its broad, unaccountable prosecutorial powers; the threat it poses to American national sovereignty; and other deficiencies that render it illegitimate. Any attempt to target American, Israeli, or allied personnel for prosecution will be met with a swift and vigorous response.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-from-the-president-8/

Notable: AOC Defends Omar, Tells SEAL Crenshaw “Why Don’t You Go Do Something” About Domestic Terrorists

AOC Defends Omar, Tells SEAL Crenshaw “Why Don’t You Go Do Something” About Domestic Terrorists

bongino.com/aoc-defends-omar-tells-seal-crenshaw-why-dont-you-go-do-something-about-domestic-terrorists/

twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116733186413821959

Notable: ForAmerica twat: Ilhan Omar - What kind of sick monster would find comedy…

What kind of sick monster would find comedy in the words Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah and compare those two terrorist organizations to America and the U.S. Army?

Rep. Ilhan Omar. That’s who.

twitter.com/ForAmerica/status/1116498204835631104

Notable: Trump Jr. twat: CNN covering owls instead of real news.

Are you fags seeing this? Don jr twat. cnn covering owls instead of real news.

OWLS

Notable: Giuliani twat: Rep. Ilhan Omar Must Be Denounced for Outrageous 9/11 Comments

Rep. Ilhan Omar Must Be Denounced for Outrageous 9/11 Comments

twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1116694099959197696

www.newsmax.com/bernardkerik/ilhan-omar-september-eleventh-minnesota/2019/04/10/id/911128/

Notable: US DoD twat w/ CAP: practice makes perfect

Practice makes perfect!

twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1116642112697774080

Notable: >>6151173 New DJT twat

New DJT

Notable: Former CNN Inside Africa host dies after a collapse

https://twitter.com/MirrorBreaking_/status/1116739113942749184

Notable: Ex-Muslim: “Swedes will lose Sweden in 50 years”

Bet it won't take that long

Ex-Muslim: “Swedes will lose Sweden in 50 years”

Mona Walter is a Somali woman who came to Sweden in the 90’s. In Somalia, she had never been religious, but in Sweden she was more or less forced to go to the mosque and wear a hijab.

After a couple of years she rebelled, left Islam and became an atheist. Eventually she came to believe in Jesus and converted to Christianity.

“For many years I have tried to get the Swedes to understand what the Muslim goal is – to take over your country. The first thing they will do is demand sharia courts, just like in the UK”, she says.

But the mainstream media does not want to listen to Mona Walter. They call her controversial and most Swedes turn away from her message, which they perceive as too frightening, according to the news blog Ingrid and Maria.

“Swedes are so convinced that Swedish laws will always apply in their country. But ask any Englishman if he 30 years ago would have believed that Britain would have legal sharia courts in 2019. No one would have thought it possible.”

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/04/ex-muslim-swedes-will-lose-sweden-in-50-years/

Notable: New Jersey gives law students taxpayer money to represent illegal immigrants

New Jersey gives law students taxpayer money to represent illegal immigrants

Law school clinics at Seton Hall University and Rutgers University have each received $125,000 in taxpayer money for their students to represent illegal immigrants in court. The $250,000 in funds come from a larger grant from the New Jersey Department of the Treasury, totaling $2.1 million, which will fund legal representation for New Jersey residents with immigration-related troubles, according to a news release. This money could be better spent helping poor citizens with legal troubles as opposed to noncitizens who are illegally in the country. Taxpayers are funding the aid of those who are actively breaking the law.

A Rutgers Law announcement about the program said the “funding from the Governor is an important step in ensuring that all of New Jersey’s detained immigrants get the representation they deserve. We hope this is only the beginning.” Students can also receive class credit for doing pro bono work for detained immigrants facing deportation or seeking asylum.

Hans von Spakovsky, a legal expert at the Heritage Foundation, criticized New Jersey’s priorities. “There are poor citizens in the state of New Jersey who can not afford legal representation in all kinds of everyday matters, from criminal cases to housing disputes, to child welfare issues,” he told Campus Reform. “Given the limited amount of money that the state provides, you would think that their number one priority ought to be helping citizens before they help illegal aliens.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/new-jersey-gives-law-students-taxpayer-money-to-represent-illegal-immigrants

Notable: Georgetown University students vote to increase their tuition to pay slavery reparations

Georgetown University students vote to increase their tuition to pay slavery reparations

Georgetown University students overwhelmingly voted to increase their tuition to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves once owned by the school. The move comes as reparations are increasingly being discussed on the campaign trail for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The Georgetown University Student Association held the referendum this week, with students supporting the measure by a two-to-one margin. The fee would increase tuition at the nation's oldest Catholic university by nearly $28 per semester for every student. The money would go into a fund for descendants of the 272 slaves the Jesuits sold in 1838 to keep the deeply indebted university open. The vote is not binding, however. University leadership will make the final decision on whether to implement a mandatory fee for reparations.

"There are many approaches that enable our community to respond to the legacies of slavery," Todd Olson, vice president for student affairs, said in a statement. "This student referendum provides valuable insight into student perspectives and will help guide our continued engagement with students, faculty and staff, members of the Descendant community, and the Society of Jesus." Reparations have become a topic of debate in the race for the Democratic nomination for president. At least four White House hopefuls — Obama-era housing secretary Julián Castro, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke — support payments to descendants of slaves. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has ripped into his opponents for not doing enough to make reparations a reality. Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders disagrees with the idea, however, saying that he would rather focus on the economic inequality that puts African Americans at a disadvantage.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/georgetown-university-students-vote-to-increase-their-tuition-to-pay-slavery-reparations

Notable: Iraqi special forces begin new operation to drive ISIS out northern mountain range

Iraqi special forces begin new operation to drive ISIS out northern mountain range

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:30 P.M.) – The Iraqi counter-terrorism forces launched a new operation on Thursday that targeted the remaining Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorists from a mountain range in northern Iraq.

According to a report from Baghdad, the counter-terrorism forces began their operation by storming the Islamic State’s hideouts in the Hamrin Hills.

The report said that the Iraqi counter-terrorism forces have already killed a dozen Islamic State terrorists, while also destroying a number of hideouts and trenches.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraqi-special-forces-begin-new-operation-to-drive-isis-out-northern-mountain-range/

Notable: Bill Mitchell twat 2: The game plan never changes

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1116703259845111808

Notable: Chevron Corp on Friday said it will buy Anadarko Petroleum Corp for $33 billion in cash and stock

Chevron to buy Anadarko for $33 billion in shale, LNG push

(big deal for the dollar amount)

(Reuters) - Chevron Corp on Friday said it will buy Anadarko Petroleum Corp for $33 billion in cash and stock as the company doubles down on its bet on U.S. shale oil and gas production, where the surge in output has made the United States the world’s largest energy producer.

With oil prices surging this year, Chevron and larger rival Exxon Mobil Corp have been increasing investment in the Permian basin in West Texas, the most prolific shale oil field in the country.

Their efforts coincide with a pullback by the smaller companies that revolutionized the industry through shale drilling, who have had to curtail spending due to investor dissatisfaction with weak returns.

The deal is the oil industry’s largest since Royal Dutch Shell bought BG Group in 2016, and it sparked speculation that other shale producers are in play. Shares of Apache Corp, which also has extensive acreage in the Permian Basin, jumped 7 percent in premarket trading, while Pioneer Natural Resources Co rose 6 percent.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-anadarko-petrol-m-a-chevron/chevron-to-buy-anadarko-for-33-billion-in-shale-lng-push-idUSKCN1RO143

Notable: Indonesia lifts tsunami warning after powerful 6.8 quake hits off Sulawesi island

Indonesia lifts tsunami warning after powerful 6.8 quake hits off Sulawesi island

Indonesia has lifted a tsunami warning that was issued earlier on Friday after a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sulawesi island.

A spokesman for Indonesia's Geophysical Agency announced the warning after the quake hit 280 km (174 miles) south of the province of Gorontalo. It was in place for approximately 40 minutes.

It struck at a depth of 43 km (27 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey. The warning was issued for coastal communities in the Morowali district.

There were no reports of damage or casualties but the USGS warned that considerable damage was possible in poorly built or badly designed structures

https://www.rt.com/news/456333-tsunami-warning-issued-indonesia/

Notable: NEW DJT twat w/ CAP: …This is a really big story, but the Fake News New York Times didn’t even put it on page one…

NEW DJT tweet

'''President Obama’s top White House lawyer, Gregory B. Craig, was indicted yesterday on very serious charges. This is a really big story, but the Fake News New York Times didn’t even put it on page one, rather page 16. @washingtonpost not much better, “tiny” page one. Corrupt News!

Notable: Filed under WTF: Rep Omar twats out: What if G. Bush was a muslim?

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1116683819476750337

Notable: >>6150551 Ties of Jeb Bush to Dozier school in FLA?

Jeb Bush knew what was going on at the Dozier school!!!!!

https://books.google.com/books?id=_SrAVrFD8WsC&pg=PA420&lpg=PA420&dq=florida#v=onepage&q=florida&f=false

Notable: U.S. Border Patrol Assists with Foreign Sex Trafficking in South Carolina

http://shorenewsnetwork.com/2019/04/12/u-s-border-patrol-assists-with-foreign-sex-trafficking-in-south-carolina/

Notable: RR defends Barr "He's being as forthcoming as he can"

>>6148146

>another NOTABLE for next bread

ADD to the list:

Rod Rosenstein: “He’s (AG Barr) being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he’s trying to mislead people, I think is just completely BIZARRE!” ⁦

Outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday defended Attorney General William Barr against allegations that he is misleading Congress and the public about the special counsel’s Russia report.

“He’s being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he’s trying to mislead people, I think is just completely bizarre,” Rosenstein said in a rare interview with The Wall Street Journal.

Democrats have accused Barr of releasing misleading information about special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings from his 22-month investigation, which focused on possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as whether President Trump tried to obstruct the probe.

Barr sent a letter to Congress on March 24 saying that Mueller was unable to establish that collusion occurred. On the obstruction matter, Barr said that Mueller declined to make a decision one way or the other on whether to recommend a case against Trump.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies on the Justice Department’s budget proposal before a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

Barr said that he conferred with Rosenstein and Justice Department lawyers and decided against pursuing a case. Barr said that since there was no allegation of conspiracy, Trump had no underlying crime to conceal by obstruction. (RELATED: Barr: ‘I Think Spying Did Occur’ On The Trump Campaign)

Democrats heightened their criticism last week after The New York Times reported that members of Mueller’s team were frustrated that Barr had misrepresented Mueller’s findings. The anonymous sources claimed that there was a stronger case to be made on obstruction than Barr’s letter let on.

But Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel on May 17, 2017 and oversaw the probe, said that Barr revealed as much information as he could. He also defended the review process taking place ahead of the release of the report. Barr said on Tuesday that he expects to give a redacted version of Mueller’s report to Congress “within a week.”

The Justice Department, in coordination with Mueller’s team, is reviewing the report to decide which grand jury and classified information to redact.

“It would be one thing if you put out a letter and said, ‘I’m not going to give you the report,'” Rosenstein told The Journal.

“What he said is, ‘Look, it’s going to take a while to process the report. In the meantime, people really want to know what’s in it. I’m going to give you the top-line conclusions.’ That’s all he was trying to do.”

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/11/rod-rosenstein-defends-william-barr/

Notable: Software developer linked to Julian Assange arrested at Quito airport

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Notable: lhan Omar pushes for release of jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader

WE DO NOT FORGET….KEEP DIGGERS MOVING ON THIS ONE…

lhan Omar pushes for release of jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader

Rep. Ilhan Omar — whose short tenure in Congress thus far has been rife with controversy — made a shocking appeal Tuesday, openly pushing for the release of a senior member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB).

Omar took to Twitter Tuesday evening demanding that “Trump” call for the release of Hoda Abdelmonem, a senior member in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s women’s affiliate.

I quickly confirmed that this was the same Abdelmonem who has for years been a member of the MB, which advocates for Islamist takeover of Egypt.

Abdelmonem remains an influential figure and a senior leader in the Islamist outfit, and the campaign for her release has been a top priority item for Muslim Brotherhood-aligned individuals, groups, and governments. Muslim Brotherhood-tied media networks such as Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, and Al Jazeera have dedicated nonstop coverage to this issue, often falsely portraying the Islamist activist as a human rights advocate. Muslim Brotherhood-tied campaigners in the U.S. have continued a full-court press for Abdelmonem’s release.

Additionally, these same entities all remain fiercely opposed to the rule of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who in 2013 ousted Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated former president in Cairo. So convincing the president to call for the release of their Islamist ally would arguably chip away at el-Sisi’s legitimacy.

After posting a photo of her meeting with pro-Muslim Brotherhood campaigners, Omar then doubled down on her push, retweeting this post linking to an Al Jazeera video that calls for Abdelmonem’s release:

Al Jazeera is the state-controlled, Islamistpromoting media network of the Qatari government, which uses slave labor and funds terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East. Al Jazeera regularly promotes Muslim Brotherhood leaders and groups, which seek to overthrow stable U.S. allies and install Islamist theocracies in their stead.

Since entering Congress, Rep. Omar has continued to show a preference for antagonistic U.S. adversaries and throwback Islamist leaders and groups, as opposed to U.S.-friendly Middle East nations and peaceful reform movements worldwide. She has become a regular on the CAIR speaking circuit. The terror-tied Islamist group raised mountains of cash for her congressional campaign.

The Muslim Brotherhood is classified as a terrorist organization in several nations, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Russia, Egypt, and Bahrain. The group has spawned the likes of deceased Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. Republicans in Congress continue to push legislation and directly appeal to President Trump to classify the MB as a foreign terrorist organization, given its tendency for violence and the group’s extremist, anti-American philosophy.

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/ilhan-omar-pushes-release-jailed-muslim-brotherhood-leader/

Notable: Graphic on years in prison for corrupt DOJ, FBI, and others like HRC

>>6147893

Remember the DOJ already has referrals for Hillary, Comey and others. They were sent over months ago. The existing referrals COULD add up to some serious time. Based on maximum charge per count.

Notable: From 2018: IG Report confirms Obama lied about Hillary's emails

IG Report confirms Obama lied about Hillary's emails

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, giving his presidential farewell address. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) more >

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

One aspect of the Inspector Generals’ report on the FBI handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation has been a bit overshadowed by the media. The fact that President Barack Obama lied to the American people when he claimed he only learned of Hillary Clinton’s use of an unauthorized, non-secure, non-governmental email server while she was Secretary of State.

In March 2015, when the Clinton email scandal was first breaking, CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante asked Obama about his knowledge of the matter:

Plante: Mr. President, when did you first learn that Hillary Clinton used an email system outside the U.S. government for official business while she was secretary of state?

Obama: The same time everybody else learned it through news reports.

But, that’s just not so.

Sean Davis, at The Federalist, saw the footnotes showing Obama’s involvement. “FBI analysts and Prosecutor 2 told us that former President Barack Obama was one of the 13 individuals with whom Clinton had direct contact using her clintonemail.com account,” the report says in a footnote on page 89. “Obama, like other high level government officials, used a pseudonym for his username on his official government email account.”

I interviewed Davis about this item on WMAL in Washington yesterday:

“Yeah, and that’s something we suspected for a while but I believe this is the first time it was confirmed. According to the Inspector General, Obama was one of thirteen individuals with whom Clinton emailed directly and in fact she even emailed him directly, according to the report, from the territory of a foreign adversary. And this is important because Obama had previously claimed that like everything else he learned as President, he first learned about Hillary’s secret private email from the pages of the newspapers. We know that’s not true now. In fact, it’s almost certainly a lie and it gives us some insight into why there was actually never any charges against her, because there is no way the FBI and DOJ could have gone after her for misuse or mishandling of classified info, if in fact the President was doing the exact same thing at the same time. So it’s a pretty earth shattering bombshell in that report as far as I’m concerned. “

Why is this important?

Andrew McCarthy at National Review noted early this year that Obama’s knowledge and culpability in the Clinton email scheme was a key motivating factor in James Comey’s decision to exonerate Clinton:

If Clinton had been charged, Obama’s culpable involvement would have been patent. In any prosecution of Clinton, the Clinton–Obama emails would have been in the spotlight. For the prosecution, they would be more proof of willful (or, if you prefer, grossly negligent) mishandling of intelligence. More significantly, for Clinton’s defense, they would show that Obama was complicit in Clinton’s conduct yet faced no criminal charges.

That is why such an indictment of Hillary Clinton was never going to happen. The latest jaw-dropping disclosures of text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his paramour, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, illustrate this point.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/15/ig-report-confirms-obama-lied-about-hillarys-email/

Notable: Old POTUS tweet from 2017 on JA

President Elect Trump on Jan 4, 2017

Notable: Two decades before college admissions scandal, the Clintons tried to game the system for Chelsea's boyfriend

Revealed: Two decades before college admissions scandal, the Clintons tried to game the system for Chelsea's boyfriend

Bill and Hillary Clinton tried to bully a prestigious scholarship program into selecting Chelsea Clinton’s then-boyfriend and then sought "payback" when they were resisted, according to a former top foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama. The episode took place nearly 19 years ago but has fresh resonance after revelations last month of multimillion-dollar bribes paid by parents to get their children into elite colleges, including Stanford University, which Chelsea Clinton and her then-boyfriend Jeremy Kane attended. Among those recently implicated was Michelle Obama's former tennis coach.

Trina Vargo, a veteran U.S. adviser on Ireland, founded the George J. Mitchell Scholarship in 2000. It was named after the former senator who brokered the talks that led to the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement. Vargo said that Bill Clinton intervened in the first year of the scholarship, when Kane, whose 3.19 grade-point average was much weaker than those of the top candidates, had failed to make the final selection round. President Clinton, who was in his last weeks in the White House, called Mitchell to express his displeasure, according to Vargo in her new book Shenanigans: The U.S.-Ireland Relationship in Uncertain Times. He had submitted a letter of recommendation for Kane, who had already landed an internship in the Clinton White House during his relationship with Chelsea. Kane worked in the White House speechwriting office from June to September 2000, arriving some 18 months after Clinton had been impeached over this affair with another White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.

Vargo told the Washington Examiner that the timing of Clinton’s call, which came while the program was choosing its 12 scholarship awardees from a group of 20 finalists, was a blatant attempt to game the selection process. “There’s no way to see that as anything other than an attempt to influence a situation that hadn’t been finalized yet,” she said. “In light of the college admissions scandal, I don’t think it’s very unusual for people who have money or influence to use what means they have, whether it’s for their children or friends." While no money was involved in the Clintons' attempt to procure a scholarship for Kane, by bowing to their wishes Vargo and her program would have been well-placed to benefit in future years from the largesse of the former first couple and their influential network of Irish American fundraisers.

Bill Clinton's press secretary, Angel Urena, called accusations of nepotism "baseless and patently false." The son of a Presbyterian minister and a tennis coach, Kane was at Stanford on a swimming scholarship. He attended the 2000 Democratic National Convention with the Clintons in Los Angeles. After failing to get a Mitchell Scholarship, he landed a job as a speechwriter for Sen. John Kerry. Now 40, he founded a charter school in Nashville and ran for mayor there in 2015 but finished in last place with less than 5% of the vote. He now works in real estate. Kane's friendship with Bill Clinton endured after his 2001 breakup with Chelsea, now 39. In 2014 the former president flew to Nashville to speak at an event he had organized. Kane declined to comment when contacted by the Washington Examiner.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/revealed-two-decades-before-college-admissions-scandal-the-clintons-tried-to-game-the-system-for-chelseas-boyfriend

Notable: Newly Disclosed NSA Documents Shed Further Light on Five Eyes Alliance

https://www.lawfareblog.com/newly-disclosed-nsa-documents-shed-further-light-five-eyes-alliance

Newly Disclosed NSA Documents Shed Further Light on Five Eyes Alliance

I'm not certain this has been posted before. My apologies if it has

Notable: Label for "Unplanned" now does not mention 'propaganda' (pb: >>6146282, >>6146471 )

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[Pb] >>6146282, >>6146471 Pro-life movie "Unplanned" labelled 'propaganda'

Just googled it, they must have changed it already or results are targeted.

Notable: One person injured following protest at event hosted by conservative group Young Americans for Freedom

BREAKING VIDEO: One person injured following protest at event hosted by conservative group Young Americans for Freedom. According to guest speaker Michael Knowles, a student threw bleach at him and was arrested.

https://twitter.com/University0News/status/1116537222973612032

Notable: HRC "signals her approval" on JA's arrest, still not president

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6914441/Hillary-Clinton-says-Julian-Assange-answer-hes-done.html

Notable: >>6146974 Man screams to Bill Clinton about Epstein & Lolita Island

Man screams to Bill Clinton about Epstein & Lolita Island

Tonight at Bill and Hillary's speaking gathering.

Notable: MOVEQ45 Final Flight-path

One BIG Q?

MOVEQ45 Final Flight-path

Notable: C_A's WaPo: White House considered busing ICE detainees to sanctuary cities

White House considered busing ICE detainees to sanctuary cities, WaPo reports

According to The Washington Post, documents show that the Trump administration and hardliners like WH adviser Stephen Miller pressured the Department of Homeland Security, which has jurisdiction over ICE, to release detained migrants in sanctuary cities in order to exert political pressure on rivals like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The report says that Homeland Security officials pushed back against the proposal, and it was ultimately rejected.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1116525167226707968?s=13

Notable: Epstein "had allegedly abused some 80 girls and young women”

“buried evidence he had allegedly abused some 80 girls and young women”

https://nypost.com/2019/04/11/da-knew-jeffrey-epstein-was-a-dangerous-pedophile-when-arguing-for-leniency/

Notable: >>6146621, >>6146632 All For A LARP: QAnon Goes To War With Pro-Trump PAC

All for a 'LARP'?

Q

>>6138770 [ Q pb]

All For A LARP: QAnon Goes To War With Pro-Trump PAC

contemptor.com/2019/04/07/all-for-a-larp-qanon-goes-to-war/

When I searched 'all for a larp' // this article and other references to PM // Mitchell // Gorka et all came up

Notable: >>6146667, >>6146701 AG Barr can access all info collected by Mueller and Horowitz; “Criminal prosecutions are on the table”

This is HUGE!!

Notable: >>6146402, >>6146440, >>6146460, >>6146682 Paul Sperry tweet on "terrorist sympathizers infiltrating Congress"

CAIR Islamist plants Tlaib & Omar, the anti-Semitic 9/11 apologists,dont have to undergo FBI background checks to rec'v classified intel.

No elected US official is scrubbed for security threats/risks.

Perhaps this should be revisited w terrorist sympathizers infiltrating Congress

twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1116542185472757760

Notable: >>6146471 Pro-life movie "Unplanned" labelled 'propaganda'

This was pretty notable from lb

Notable: >>6146201, >>6146228, >>6146397, >>6146499, >>6146563, >>6146570, >>6146626, >>6146694, >>6146705 Planefag updates

RAF plane with Reg.# ZZ666

Notable: Past Q Post on whistleblowers

whistle-blowers often need protection

Sometimes 'intrusions' are a necessary event in order to safeguard chain of custody

and

==magnitude must be handled w/ extreme care.

The moment your name went 'live' there was no other choice.==

Notable: Google loses diversity chief amid unrest over workplace issues

Google loses diversity chief amid unrest over workplace issues

Danielle Brown will be replaced by Melonie Parker, who's been serving as the company’s head of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Google diversity chief Danielle Brown on Thursday said she's leaving the search giant, as the company has dealt with several uprisings from employees over the last year related to workplace culture. She will be replaced by Melonie Parker, who's been serving as the company's head of diversity, equity and inclusion. Brown, who spent almost two years at the company, said in a LinkedIn post that she's headed to Gusto, a payroll and benefits startup based in Denver and San Francisco.

In her announcement, Brown doesn't mention Google by name, but said she wanted to explore working on diversity issues at places other than the "biggest tech companies in the world." "What if, in addition to trying to solve for employee engagement and inclusion within the biggest tech companies in the world, we tried to solve those critical needs for every local storefront, every new startup just getting off the ground, or every doctor's office across our communities?" she wrote. Brown didn't respond to a request for additional comment.

Google confirmed her departure. "We're grateful to Danielle for her excellent work over the past two years to improve representation in Google's workforce and ensure an inclusive culture for everyone," Eileen Naughton, Google's head of people operations, said in a statement. "We wish her all the best in her new role at Gusto." Brown's leaving comes a little more than a week after she and Parker released Google's annual diversity numbers. They acknowledged they'd only made "incremental progress." In 2018, women constituted 32.2% of new hires, up a bit from 31.3% the year before. The company also hired more black and Latino workers, though the gains were less dramatic. Black hires were up to 4.8% from 4.1%, and Latino hires were up to 6.8% from 6.3%.

Google has also faced intense scrutiny from its employees over its workplace conditions. In November, roughly 20,000 Googlers walked out of the company's offices worldwide to protest its handling of sexual assault allegations directed at key executives. One of the demands of the protest was to elevate Brown to report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai, rather than Naughton, to demonstrate Google's commitment to diversity. Google didn't capitulate to that demand.

More recently, more than 2,000 Googlers earlier this month signed a petition to remove a member of the company's newly formed council on artificial intelligence ethics for alleged anti-trans and anti-immigrant views. The board was disbanded after only a week, in response to the outcry. A day after the AI ethics board petition, 900 workers also reportedly signed a different letter demanding better treatment of Google's extended workforce, commonly known at the company as TVCs – temps, vendors and contractors. In response, Google said it'd require temp companies to provide its workers with full benefits, including health care, a $15 minimum wage and paid parental leave.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-loses-diversity-chief-amid-unrest-over-workplace-issues/

Notable: , >>6145986 USAF plane flying toward U.K. with callsign MOVEQ45

USAF plane flying toward U.K. with callsign MOVEQ45

R U kidding? MOVE Q 45

45 = POTUS

Let’s go!!

Notable: Assange: A Call To Cryptographic Arms

This is Julian Assange et al

A CALL TO CRYPTOGRAPHIC ARMS

If you Like please spread far and wide.

Notable: 1 Year Delta on QPost and Iran news

Fresh.

Article link here: https:// www.tehrantimes.com/news/434483/Iran-starts-installing-chain-of-20-IR6-centrifuges

Notable: , >>6145521 Update on the ICE shooting in AZ

PB

>>6144794

This is ICE and Human Trafickking related.

This is not justa little part of AZ, this is a nice area and heavily populated. Near I-10, a few blocks away. Milion dollar homes just a few blocks as well. up to 50 shots fired. Unmarked ICE with tactical vests. 8 victims, one dead. Not some sleepy place in AZ. Ahwatukee is what it is clled, but it is actually Phoenix, near South Mountain Park. The pic is typical homes nearby. Lots of human traffickking "safe houses" in nice neighboorhoods as so many are not home during the day as they are at work…….easy to do that crime here, eassy and near freeway access , straight shot to the border to this bedroom town.

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/federal-agents-hospitalized-after-shootout-with-human-smuggling-suspects-in-ahwatukee-ice-says/75-697170fb-1142-4afc-9086-c221bf7bc844

Notable: Q posted link to WL the same day Assange’s indictment was filed

What are the odds that Q would post link to Wikileaks the same day Assange’s indictment was filed?

Notable: New British passports no longer say “European Union”

New British passports no longer say “European Union”

British passports that no longer say “European Union” began to be distributed on the 30th of March.

This change was announced by the Home Affairs Minister on Saturday. The new passports have been handed out despite the fact that the final details of Brexit have not yet been set in stone. The initial date set was the 29th of March.

The minister was questioned by a British citizen over Twitter on Friday. The citizen concerned said they were “really appalled” at their new passport cover.

“We are still in the EU. Why doesn’t my new passport reflect that?” asked Susan Hindle Barone.

“Bordeaux-coloured passports that don’t say European Union were distributed on the 30th of March”, a Home Affairs minister’s spokesperson said in a press release.

“Passports that still say European Union will continue to be handed out during a short period after this date so we can shift the remaining stock”, the spokesperson continued. The spokesman added “that both models are as valid as each other when it comes to travelling”.

The United Kingdom was initially supposed to leave the European Union on the 29th or March, exactly two years after activating article 50 of the Lisbon treaty. Article 50 is the one that takes a member state out the Union.

http://www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/14845/new-british-passports-no-longer-say-european-union

Notable: Bank for International Settlements Leads the Basel III Revolution

Bank for International Settlements Leads the Basel III Revolution

Basel 3: A Revolution That Once Again No One Noticed

Real revolutions are taking place not on squares, but in the quiet of offices, and that’s why nobody noticed the world revolution that took place on March 29th 2019. Only a small wave passed across the periphery of the information field, and the momentum faded away because the situation was described in terms unclear to the masses.

No “Freedom, equality, brotherhood”, “Motherland or death”, or “Power to Councils, peace to the people, bread to the hungry, factories to the worker, and land to the farmers” – none of these masterpieces of world populism were used. And that’s why what happened was understood in Russia by only a few people. And they made such comments that the masses either did not fully listen to them or did not read up to the end. Or they did listen to the end, but didn’t understand anything.

But they should’ve, because the world changed so cardinally that it is indeed time for Nathan Rothschild, having crumpled a hat in his hand, to climb onto an armoured Rolls-Royce [a joke referencing what Lenin did – ed], and to shout from on top of it to all the Universe: “Comrades! The world revolution, the need for which revolutionaries spoke about for a long time, came true!” [paraphrasing what Lenin said – ed] And he would be completely right. It’s just that the results of the revolution will be implemented slowly, and that’s why they are imperceptible for the population. But the effects, nevertheless, will be soon seen by absolutely everyone, up to the last cook who even doesn’t seek to learn to govern the state soon.

This revolution is called “Basel III”, and it was made by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Its essence is in the following: BIS runs the IMF, and this, in turn, runs the central banks of all countries. The body of such control is called BCBS – the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. It isn’t just some worthless US State Department or Congress of American senators. It’s not a stupid Pentagon, a little Department of the Treasury, which runs around like the CIA’s servant on standby, or a house of collective farmers with the name “White House”.

This isn’t even the banks of the US Federal Reserve, which govern all of this “wealth”. This is a Government of all of them combined. That real world Government that people in the world try not to speak about aloud.

BCBS is the Politburo of the world, whose Secretary General, according to rumours, is comrade Baruch, and the underground structure of the Central Committee is even more secret. It has many euphemisms, the most adequate of which is “Zurich gnomes”. This is what Swiss bankers are called. Not even owners of commercial banks, but namely those ordinary-looking men sitting in the Swiss city of Basel who Hitler – who tried to attach the whole world to the Third Reich, and who preserved neutrality with Switzerland during all the war – didn’t dare to attack. And, as is known, in Switzerland, besides Swiss rifleman, in reality there isn’t even an army. So who was the frenzied Fuhrer afraid of?

https://www.stalkerzone.org/basel-3-a-revolution-that-once-again-no-one-noticed/

Notable: , >>6145529, >>6145545, >>6145614 Planefag Updates

>>6144700

MOVEQ45 dropped off radar at 2208 after increase in speed.

TY Baker!

Notable: , >>6145377 Swedish developer close to Assange arrested at Quito airport

https://apnews.com/328522adb35b4445a3fb875d63fb0870?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter

Notable: , >>6145194 Safest way of getting Assange out of the embassy

>>6145027

safest way to transport Julian Assange out of the embassy is being surrounded by a bunch of police.

no clean sniper shot

Who would dare take a pot shot at him when they could hit an officer

Notable: France Blocks E.U. from Condemning Libyan Warlord’s Invasion of Tripoli

Report: France Blocks E.U. from Condemning Libyan Warlord’s Invasion of Tripoli

France, which owns oil assets in Libya, reportedly sidelined a European Union statement this week calling on the Paris and Moscow-backed Libyan strongman Gen. Khalifa Haftar to halt his eastern army’s offensive against forces loyal to the North African country’s internationally recognized government in Tripoli.

On Thursday, Reuters revealed: An EU draft statement on Wednesday said Haftar’s attack on Tripoli put civilians at risk, disrupted normalization efforts and risked an escalation with serious consequences for Libya and the wider region. That statement was sidelined by France. French diplomatic sources said Paris did not object to calls on Haftar to halt his advance, but rather had only requested amendments including mentions of the plight of migrants in Libya and the presence in anti-Haftar forces of Islamist militants designated as terrorists by the United Nations.

On April 4, Haftar — who has seized control of most of Libya with the support of France, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — launched an operation to seize Tripoli from troops fighting on behalf of the U.N.-brokered Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj. In the wake of the fighting, the U.S. military, which is in Libya to combat jihadi groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), “temporarily” pulled its troops out of Libya. Barring France, most Western countries, including the United States, have called on Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA) to stop the offensive. Haftar has surfaced as the leader of a breakaway government based in eastern Libya’s Tobruk region, placing him on a collision course with the Serraj administration headquartered in Tripoli.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the fighting between the two sides has already killed at least 56 people and wounded 266 others. Clashes have also pushed about 8,000 others out of their homes in Tripoli. The U.S.- and France-backed overthrow and subsequent execution of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 has plunged Libya into chaos, with the two rival governments vying for power while jihadi groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) use the oil-rich North African country as a safe haven. France’s opposition to the E.U. statement calling on Haftar to stop his Tripoli offensive has pinned the country against Italy, Libya’s former colonial ruler that backs the Serraj faction.

“In Rome, Libya’s former colonial ruler Italy warned France, which has good relations with Haftar, to refrain from supporting any one faction after diplomats said Paris had scuttled a European Union statement calling on him to halt his offensive,” Reuters noted. Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini rebuked France for its opposition to the EU statement against Haftar.

In an interview with Italy’s Radio RTL 102.5, Salvini declared, “It would be very serious if France for economic or commercial reasons had blocked an EU initiative to bring peace to Libya and would support a party that is fighting. As minister of the interior, I will not stand by and watch.” Salvini suggested France’s refusal to rescind its support for Haftar stems from Paris’ economic interests in Libya. “Some think that the [2011 NATO-led military intervention] in Libya promoted by [then-French President Nicolas] Sarkozy was triggered more by economic and commercial interests than by humanitarian concerns,” he said. “I hope we are not seeing the same film all over again.”

Haftar has rejected U.N. pressure to accept a power-sharing agreement with Serraj to stabilize Libya, “using his leverage as a Western ally against militant Islam in North Africa,” Reuters noted. However, France 24 reported this week, “While Haftar has sold himself to the West as an anti-Islamist fighter, experts say he has close links to a branch of Salafists called Madkhalists.”

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/04/11/report-france-blocks-e-u-condemning-libyan-warlords-invasion-tripoli/

Notable: Final clock graphic: First JA drop mirrors JA news today

Will repost this in honor of the bread title.

Sorry it seems so complicated. Funny it was notable when it was just two posts but when it develops to the final CLOCK everyone ignores it.

Notable: 4 ICE officials involved in shooting in Phoenix

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1116509366188773376?s=19

Notable: Top Ukranian justice official: US ambassador gave him a do-not-prosecute list

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/434875-top-ukrainian-justice-official-says-us-ambassador-gave-him-a-do-not-prosecute?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Notable: Tucker on Julian Assange arrest: He is a journalist

Tucker on Julian Assange arrest: "You'd think journalists would say something about this. Assange is after all one of them. What do you call a man who publishes news for a living? Assange is no sleazier than many journalists in Washington. He's definitely not more anti-American."

Notable: Past Q re: Assange Arrest from 2010‎ & Marty Torrey (Mad Hatter)

Past Q re: Assange Arrest from 2010‎

>>‎3317104‎ 03.10.2018

https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?collection=Litigation_F-2016-07895_47

[Pg 20 - Assange Arrest]‎

By: Marty Torrey [Mad Hatter]

Q‎

>foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/Litigation_F-2016-07895_47/F-2016-07895/DOC_0C06153474/C06153474.pdf

‎

‎Past Arrest 

‎>worldhistoryproject.org/2010/12/7/julian-assange-is-arrested-by-london-metropolitan-police

Notable: , >>6144700, >>6144793, >>6144861, >>6145088, >>6145158, >>6145198 Planefag Updates

apaches over london.

Notable: Syria News (Sana and Southfront)

SYRIA UPDATE

Syria Kurds Reach Deal On Return Of 31,000 Displaced Iraqis As Situation In Refugee Camps Continue To Deteriorate

A delegation from the Iraqi cabinet visited the autonomous administration to discuss the return to Iraq of displaced Iraqis, estimated to number 31,000, and an agreement was reached … So far 4,000 people have signed up and we are waiting for the Iraqi government to open up the Iraqi border to start,” Kurdish official Mahmud Kero told AFP.

https://southfront.org/syria-kurds-reach-deal-on-return-of-31000-displaced-iraqis-as-situation-in-refugee-camps-continue-to-deteriorate/

Western Spies Among the Jihadis in Idlib

There are spies among the Jihadis in Idlib. Movements, storages and plans are well known to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their Russian allies. Recently, the Russian Defense Ministry warned that European intelligence agents were inside Idlib, and planning a chemical attack, which would be blamed on the Syrian and/or Russian military. The professional video troupe, The White Helmets, is also present ready to begin their upcoming role in the drama. French and Belgian agents inside Idlib were observed by informants in their midst, though the French Foreign Ministry accused Russia of lying.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/western-spies-among-the-jihadis-in-idlib-planning-a-new-drama-a-chemical-attack/5674001

Moscow: Terrorists of Jabhat al-Nusra continue attacks on civilians, army positions

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed that terrorists of Jabhat al-Nusra continue their provocations and attacks on the civilians and positions of the Syrian Arab army in Idleb and Hama provinces.

Zakharova, in a press briefing on Thursday said: ” these attacks, which were carried out in the de-escalation zone in Idleb, resulted in many civilian and military casualties.”

https://sana.sy/en/?p=163071

Three children killed in landmine explosion left by terrorists in Quneitra countryside

Three children were killed and another one was injured Thursday in a landmine explosion, left by terrorists, in Khan Arnabah town in Quneitra countryside.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=163068

Military Situation In Syria On April 11, 2019 (Map Update)

Explosions were reported in the area between al-Bukamal and al-Qaim on the Syrian-Iraqi border;

2 people died from an IED explosion in Al-Shafa;

An explosion took place near a Turkish military HQ in the area of Bulbul;

Up to 20 people die daily in the makeshift Al-Hol camp set up by US-backed forces due to an acute shortage of medicine and food, as well as poor living conditions, the Russian military says;

An IED esplosion in Afrin reportedly targeted a vehicle of Turkish-backed militants;

Multiple ceasefire violations were reported in northern Hama and southern Idlib.

https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-syria-on-april-11-2019-map-update/

U.S. Seeks To Keep Its Coalition Active After Ensuring Troops Will Stay In Syria

The U.S. is working to maintain its “international coalition” in order to prevent ISIS from reemerging, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, Kathryn Wheelbarger, stressed in an interview with The Washington Times.

According to Wheelbarger, U.S. military officials and State Department diplomats are trying get commitments from all 79 coalition members to continue the group’s work. The official said that an agreement to extend the “Defeat ISIS” mission will likely be finalized during the NATO ministerial meeting next June.

“We expect the threat to evolve, [and] the importance of the coalition is our priority,” Wheelbarger said in the interview that was released on April 9.

https://southfront.org/u-s-seeks-to-keep-its-coalition-active-after-ensuring-troops-will-stay-in-syria/

Notable: Hannity tonight looks at the media's obsession with Avenatti

#HANNITY TONIGHT: This sneak-peek montage exposes the media's obsession with Michael Avenatti for what it was – a cynical attempt by the Destroy-Trump Media to bring down a sitting president!

twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116504465895579648

Notable: , >>6144403 George Nasiff claims he has Assange's insurance files and keys

George Nasiff FB post 6 hrs ago

"Here is a snippet of the Meta data files in my possession. These are my personal files that came with the Wikileaks insurance file emails that will exonerate Julian. He never hacked any US Gov computer. Meta data files show exactly where the emails came from. He will never plead guilty, he will never be convicted. its all fake and we have living proof. the total metadata file is 4248 lines of code. This is only a snapshot but enough to clear Julian of any charges. The FBI will be more than embarrassed about this episode of false charges and false imprisonment. I see a huge lawsuit in their future."

https://www.facebook.com/1080318924/posts/10216748286514432/

"yes, I have the keys, to all three insurance files, and the deleted 33,000 Hillary emails. I have the whole server saved, every file, every folder. Over 6 TB worth of evidence in mt server."

Don't know much about this guy. Is this guy for real?

Notable: , >>6144313 Planefag Reports: VP Pence up

AF2 up, over Tucson

Notable: GOP Lawmaker Introduces Bill to REMOVE Adam Schiff from Intel Committee

SCHIFF SHOWDOWN: GOP Lawmaker Introduces Bill to REMOVE Adam Schiff from Intel Committee

www.hannity.com/media-room/schiff-showdown-gop-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-remove-adam-schiff-from-intel-committee/

twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116493650723319809

Notable: , >>6144082 POTUS & 45_Schedule retweet: RR Defends AG’s Handling Of Mueller Report

POTUS_Schedule Retweeted

The Daily Caller

‏Verified account @DailyCaller

1h1 hour ago

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1116485610020179969

Rod Rosenstein Defends Attorney General’s Handling Of Mueller Report

7:28 PM 04/11/2019 | US

Chuck Ross | Reporter

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/11/rod-rosenstein-defends-william-barr/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

Outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday defended Attorney General William Barr against allegations that he is misleading Congress and the public about the special counsel’s Russia report.

“He’s being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he’s trying to mislead people, I think is just completely bizarre,” Rosenstein said in a rare interview with The Wall Street Journal.

Democrats have accused Barr of releasing misleading information about special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings from his 22-month investigation, which focused on possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as whether President Trump tried to obstruct the probe.

Barr sent a letter to Congress on March 24 saying that Mueller was unable to establish that collusion occurred. On the obstruction matter, Barr said that Mueller declined to make a decision one way or the other on whether to recommend a case against Trump.

Barr said that he conferred with Rosenstein and Justice Department lawyers and decided against pursuing a case. Barr said that since there was no allegation of conspiracy, Trump had no underlying crime to conceal by obstruction. (RELATED: Barr: ‘I Think Spying Did Occur’ On The Trump Campaign)

Democrats heightened their criticism last week after The New York Times reported that members of Mueller’s team were frustrated that Barr had misrepresented Mueller’s findings. The anonymous sources claimed that there was a stronger case to be made on obstruction than Barr’s letter let on.

But Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel on May 17, 2017 and oversaw the probe, said that Barr revealed as much information as he could. He also defended the review process taking place ahead of the release of the report. Barr said on Tuesday that he expects to give a redacted version of Mueller’s report to Congress “within a week.”

The Justice Department, in coordination with Mueller’s team, is reviewing the report to decide which grand jury and classified information to redact.

“It would be one thing if you put out a letter and said, ‘I’m not going to give you the report,'” Rosenstein told The Journal.

“What he said is, ‘Look, it’s going to take a while to process the report. In the meantime, people really want to know what’s in it. I’m going to give you the top-line conclusions.’ That’s all he was trying to do.”

Notable: Former Hussein WH counsel Greg Craig on April 11 Indictment

Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig on April 11 Indictment

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1153651/download

Notable: Interesting new FOIA from StateDept re Brennan

Interesting new FOIA from StateDept:

John Brennan was declared "on leave" in June, 2016.

That's also when:

-Christopher Steele typed up first memo on "Trump-Russia" collusion

-First FISA app to spy on Trump campaign was rejected by judge

-Brennan met with Hannigan of GCHQ

https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1116493342102175745

Notable: President and CEO of Mattress Firm resigns, ties to sex trafficking

Steve Stagner has resigned as executive chairman, president and CEO of Mattress Firm

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2019/04/10/mattress-firm-s-chairman-president-and-ceo-just

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tempur-sealys-stock-soars-toward-15-month-high-after-mattress-firm-ceo-resigns-2019-04-10

Owned by Steinhoff Holdings:

Inside the Steinhoff saga, one of the biggest cases of corporate fraud in South African business history

https://www.cnbcafrica.com/insights/steinhoff/2018/06/28/steinhoff-rise-fall/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-25/the-steinhoff-scandal-is-now-putting-children-s-lives-at-risk

==Previously owned by JW Childs, which

is connected to this scandal:==

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/crime/indian-river-county/2019/02/22/billionaire-john-childs-charged-florida-human-trafficking-prostitution-ring/2953948002/

https://pitchbook.com/newsletter/jw-childs-to-change-name-after-prostitution-scandal

JW Childs was also huge political donor, contributing over $20,000,00 to (mostly GOP) political campaigns and PACs:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000000342&cycle=2018

Looks like Mattress Firm/Steinhoff/Childs could all be involved with human/child/sex trafficking and/or worse.

Mattress Firm "BEDquarters" complete with napping rooms, ping pong, hidden rooms, and a room full of red shoes hanging on the wall:

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/03/24/photos-nap-rooms-murals-and-arcade-games-of.html#g/409120/8

We could use more Anons digging into these connections. This looks like it could be BIG.

Notable: Refresher: Podesta on 'making an example' of leakers

>>6144043

Notable: Secretive Liberal Donor Club Plots $275m Spending Plan for 2020

Confidential Memo: Secretive Liberal Donor Club Plots $275 Million Spending Plan for 2020

Democracy Alliance has steered $1.83 billion to progressive infrastructure since 2005

A secretive group of top liberal donors has budgeted $275 million to be injected into progressive infrastructure leading up to the 2020 elections, confidential documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.

The Democracy Alliance, which has been pivotal in helping bankroll left-wing causes and organizations since its founding in 2005, held its annual Spring conference at the ritzy Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas, last week. Members and liberal groups mapped out their goals of expanding and strengthening the progressive political base, building and supporting progressive governance at every level, and restoring and expanding structural power.

The gatherings, which typically feature prominent Democratic politicians, are not publicly announced in advance, feature tight security, and are billed as a "safe place for its progressive funders." Members of the alliance, who are called "partners," are prohibited from talking to media, told to "refrain from leaving sensitive materials in public spaces," and to dispose of unwanted materials in "specially-identified recycling bins."

The Free Beacon was on site for the alliance's spring gathering and obtained a number of private and confidential documents from the group, including its agenda for the conference, its "Vision for a Progressive America," and its upcoming "Investments Strategy and Recommendations."

Gara LaMarche, who was previously the vice president and director of U.S. Programs at George Soros's Open Society Foundations, leads the Alliance, which counts Soros as a member and consists of more than 100 millionaire and billionaire donors who each pledge at least $200,000 annually to organizations that are recommended by the club. Its full list of members is unknown due to the group's secrecy.

According to confidential documents distributed to its members in Austin, the Democracy Alliance’s partners have infused $1.83 billion into the left since its inception.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/confidential-memo-secretive-liberal-donor-club-plots-275-million-for-2020/

Notable: New DJT: "Great heroes!"

New DJT

Great heroes!

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1116498486638317568?s=21

https://twitter.com/dailycaller/status/1116473002563121152?s=21

Notable: Theresa May told 'you are the problem' by backbenchers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/04/08/theresa-may-told-problem-backbenchers-urge-go-good-party/

https://outline.com/fPvbDe

Theresa May told 'you are the problem' by backbenchers furious over Brexit paralysis as they urge her to go for good of the party

heresa May is facing demands from her own MPs to stand down immediately after senior backbenchers told her she is now “the problem”.

A delegation of executives from the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers met Mrs May in Downing Street on Monday and said the mood among party supporters had turned against her over the weekend.

Mrs May sat in stony silence and refused to discuss her future as the MPs made clear the “damage” she is causing the party, sources said.

The meeting will draw comparisons with the final days of Margaret Thatcher's reign when she was visited by "the men in grey suits" and prevailed upon to resign for the good of the party.

Notable: , >>6143964, >>6144033 Planefagging: MOVEQ45 Eastbound over Atlantic

MOVEQ45 Eastbound over Atlantic

Notable: Gowdy on monitoring the conversations & activities of 2 campaign officials

Wearing a wire?

Gowdy: If you're a law enforcement officer wearing a wire-which also happened in this case…What was the factual predicate for US govt to monitor the conversations & activities of 2 campaign officials?

Wearing a wire?? Believe this is new.

At ~2:20 mark

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1116488675766849536?s=21

Notable: Egypt pulls out of anti-Iran alliance envisioned by US, allies (Reuters)

Egypt pulls out of anti-Iran alliance envisioned by US, allies: Reuters

Egypt has reportedly turned its back on a US-led initiative to establish a NATO-style alliance of Arab countries primarily aimed at countering Iran out of concerns that such a coalition could increase tensions with the Islamic Republic, among other reasons.

Four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday that Cairo had informed the US and the members of what is to be called the Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA) of the withdrawal plan ahead of their Sunday’s meeting in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

One of the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Egypt had not sent a delegation to the Riyadh event.

An Arab source stressed that Egypt had pulled out of the so-called “Arab NATO" because of its doubts about the seriousness of the proposal as well as the danger that such an Arab front would increase tensions with Tehran.

Other reasons were uncertainty about whether US President Donald Trump will win a second term in 2020 and whether his successor may scrap the initiative to form an anti-Iran alliance, the Arab source added.

Reuters described Cairo’s move as a blow to the Trump administration’s anti-Iran strategy.

A Saudi source also confirmed problems with the plan, saying, “It’s not moving well.”

Meanwhile, two other sources emphasized that the remaining MESA members were moving ahead with the initiative and would press Egypt diplomatically to revoke its withdrawal from the anti-Iran group.

“We all want them back,” said one of the sources.

The Arab source, however, noted that Egypt could not be convinced to return to the so-called “Arab NATO,” which is comprised of Jordan and six Persian Gulf Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.

Egyptian officials have not yet commented on the report.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/11/593133/Egypt-Iran-Arab-NATO

Notable: Anon analysis on POTUS tweets and Q Post deltas

I found an error in my data analysis for a post that made notables, so I feel it's important to draw attention to the error. Last month, I analyzed delta statistics - after each Q post, how many minutes until the next Trump tweet. The final product was a scatterplot showing the frequency of deltas between 0-20 minutes, it was clear that zero-delta was unusually common (expected, but the graph made it easy to see)

>>5496921 (pb)

Unfortuately my analysis was incorrect, due to some bad data from a misunderstanding about how times were represented in the data. I've corrected my error, and also making these changes:

* Including all Q posts from qanon.pub (early posts without tripcode or Q name were not in the original) through Q3312

* Changing the question slightly - "how many minutes until the next Trump tweet" created a shadowing effect (Q posts contributing to bucket n were excluded from n+1, n+2 etc) which could create a slope due to smaller sample size at increasing offsets, so I'm asking a different question that under the null hypothesis of no correlation shouldn't produce a slope: For each offset of n minutes, how many times do we find a Q post and Trump tweet separated by n minutes?

* Extending the graph to 60 minutes, and also looking at negative deltas (Trump first) since there was interest in that direction

Method: For Q from qanon.pub in Javascript console

for (var x in posts) if (posts.hasOwnProperty(x)) console.log(posts[x].timestamp);

… then copied results off console to text file (times appear to be Unix timestamps)

For Trump: http://trumptwitterarchive.com/archive "search through all of Trump's tweets", set a date range including all Q posts, export CSV, copy-and-paste results to text file (times appear to be GMT)

Both websites seem to display times in EST *year-round* (UTC-5 even during summer, when EDT is UTC-4) regardless of the user's timezone, whether DST is in effect, or whether DST was in effect on the displayed calendar date. (I ran tests as we crossed into DST to see how the websites rendered times.) Trump archive shows clock times in both HTML and CSV, but different time zones in each format (EST/GMT)

I converted Trump times to Unix timestamps. Then for all Q posts, for all Trump tweets, I calculated delta in minutes = floor((Trump - Q) / 60), and incremented a count bin. With "floor" the zero bin has only positive deltas, negative values like -0.3 go into bin -1. (Examples: #-2 bin = -2 to -1 min, #-1 = -1 to -0, #0 = +0 to +1, #1 = +1 to +2) Positive means Trump posted after Q (the direction of interest, since a LARP could choose to post after Trump but could not anticipate when Trump will tweet)

Due to the low sample sizes (e.g. zero delta had 28 events), I repeated the analysis with 5-minute bins to even out statistical noise, and pool together deltas from 0 to 299 seconds into a single bin (from Q's phrasing some intended small-delta events may have been over 60 seconds.) Limiting to +/- 1 hour due to time of day effect slope: since Trump often tweets in the day while Q often posts late, big offsets skew towards Trump first (negative delta)

Results:

* With 1-minute bins, zero delta (0-59 second deltas) is high (28) but only near 90th percentile with more complete and accurate data, and a wider view (6 higher counts: 29 at 2,4,13,15 min; 31 at 49,55 min)

* With 5-minute bins, zero bin (0-299 second deltas) had 127 counts, higher than following bins. You have to go out to the 15th bin (75-80 minute delta) before finding a higher count

I noticed something odd, anyone have ideas? In the graph of 5-minute bins showing both positive/negative deltas, there's an abrupt change at zero – setting aside the zero bin itself (Trump posts 0-5 minutes after Q), negative deltas have consistently higher counts than positive deltas. Going out one hour (+/- 12 bins), negative bins (Trump posts first) have counts 117-157, while positive bins (Q posts first, in at least bin 1, meaning 5+ minute delta) are in the range 80-111. Not time of day effect - change is abrupt, not a slope. In plain language, it sounds like Trump is LESS likely to post in the hour after Q has posted, EXCEPT during the first 5 minutes. What does this mean? Is POTUS going quiet because he's busy reading the replies to Q on 8chan? Who knows?

For anyone inclined to see that as a LARP signal (pro-Q hypothesis is elevated rate of Trump posting after Q) this drop-off is not immediate, the "zero bin" looks similar to the negative values to the left. By choosing when to post based on when Trump tweets, a LARP could elevate the count in negative delta bins, but the zero bin itself would look like the other positive offsets, and it doesn't

Conclusion: With better data the signal isn't as perfect as before, but zero delta is near 90th percentile, and signal looks stronger when also considering small deltas under 5 minutes

Notable: Tucker: A lot of people will regret it if Assange talks in DC

TUCKER DROPPED A BOMBSHELL!

"I don't think we want Assange in Washington. Once he starts talking in open court a lot of people are going to regret that he did that."

Notable: Bolivian president condemns ‘persecution of Assange over US’ murders & spying’

Bolivian president condemns ‘persecution of Assange over US’ murders & spying’

Bolivian President Evo Morales has condemned the arrest and detention of Julian Assange, who he said is being “persecuted” for revealing US “human rights violations, murders of civilians and diplomatic espionage.”

“We strongly condemn the detention of Julian Assange and the violation of freedom of speech,” Morales tweeted on Thursday.

Our solidarity is with this brother who is persecuted by the US government for bringing to light its human rights violations, murders of civilians and diplomatic espionage.

The WikiLeaks founder was hauled from the Ecuadorian embassy in London by British police on Thursday morning, after nearly seven years of de-facto house arrest. Assange was found guilty of failing to appear at a 2012 bail hearing, and is also facing extradition to the United States on a charge of conspiracy to commit a cybercrime.

https://www.rt.com/news/456279-assange-arrest-reaction-evo-morales/

Notable: Refresher: Media Matters CEO, David Brock, with Lynn & James Alefantis

Media Matters CEO, David Brock, with Lynn & James Alefantis (ex-boyfriend of Brock).

Notable: , >>6143452 Biden letters reveal support of segregationists in busing fight

Biden letters reveal support of segregationists in busing fight

Former VP rarely talks about early issue

Joe Biden's road to a third presidential bid has been lined with a series of explanations and apologies, illustrating the challenges of preparing a long record of public service for fresh scrutiny under the spotlight of the 2020 campaign. Yet he rarely discusses one of the earliest – and most controversial – issues he championed in the Senate: his fight against busing to desegregate schools. It was more than four decades ago as a battle raged across the country – and in Congress – over sending white students to majority-black schools and black students to majority-white schools often far away from their own neighborhoods. Biden forcefully opposed the government's role in trying to integrate schools, saying he favored desegregation, but believed busing did not achieve equal opportunity.

In a series of never-before-published letters from Biden, which were reviewed by CNN, the strength of his opposition to busing comes into sharper focus, particularly how he followed the lead of – and sought support from – some of the Senate's most fervent segregationists.

"My bill strikes at the heart of the injustice of court-ordered busing. It prohibits the federal courts from disrupting our educational system in the name of the constitution where there is no evidence that the governmental officials intended to discriminate," Biden wrote to fellow senators on March 25, 1977. "I believe there is a growing sentiment in the Congress to curb unnecessary busing."

Biden, who at the time was 34 and serving his first term in the Senate, repeatedly asked for – and received – the support of Sen. James Eastland, a Mississippi Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary Committee and a leading symbol of Southern resistance to desegregation. Eastland frequently spoke of blacks as "an inferior race." "Dear Mr. Chairman," Biden wrote on June 30, 1977. "I want you to know that I very much appreciate your help during this week's committee meeting in attempting to bring my anti-busing legislation to a vote." Two weeks later, Biden followed up with a note to Eastland "to thank you again for your efforts in support of my bill to limit court ordered busing."

Biden, who would go on to lead the Judiciary Committee a decade later, got his start on the panel under Eastland. Few senators were more virulently outspoken against desegregation than the Mississippi senator, who was known for incendiary floor speeches on race. Yet Biden invited Eastland to speak on the Senate floor in support of his anti-busing bill. "I want to personally ask your continued support and alert you to our intentions," Biden wrote on Aug. 22, 1978. "Your participation in floor debate would be welcomed."

http://www.channel4000.com/nation/politics/biden-letters-reveal-support-of-segregationists-in-busing-fight/1068191176

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Notable: Nunes on Hannity tonight to talk about the criminal referrals

#HANNITY BREAKING TONIGHT: @DevinNunes will be on to talk about the notice of criminal referrals he just sent to AG Barr! Tune in at 9PM for a real bombshell!

twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116484357324181505

Notable: , >>6143236 Trump clears path for JA: Drops charges

President Trump has cleared the path for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to enter the United States without fear of arrest or deportation.

The exoneration comes after days of unexpected and unusual developments surrounding Assange.

On Tuesday, Wikileaks posted a tweet announcing (https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/948311727283884034) that the U.S. government had finally ended its eight-year-long grand jury proceedings against WikiLeaks – proceedings which were initiated by the Obama administration.

US government on why it has decided to close its eight year long grand jury proceedings against @WikiLeaks (expanded in 2017 to cover our series on the CIA). Wait, what?

https://t.co/lifuptJLGs (https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/948284718419656704)

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 2, 2018

Infowars.com reports: The WikiLeaks tweet referenced a State Department press conference held that day, Jan. 2, 2018, in which State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert made a strong statement regarding freedom of speech that was couched in a reference to Iran.

.@statedeptspox: We support a freedom of the press. When a nation clamps down on social media, we ask the question — what are you afraid of? We support the people of #Iran, and we support their voices being heard.

pic.twitter.com/4dG4FlWTMJ

— Department of State (@StateDept) January 2, 2018

The WikiLeaks tweet confirmed the State Department’s reference to freedom of speech in Iran was a coded communication intended to extend the umbrella of free speech and press rights to WikiLeaks in a clear reversal of the policy in which both CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Attorney General Sessions have argued that arresting Julian Assange is a priority. It is not clear that Assange has violated national security laws, even if it can be shown he published U.S. national security classified documents.

Notable: Co-Founder of BDS movement denied US entry despite valid travel docs

Co-Founder of BDS Movement Denied US Entry Despite Valid Travel Documents

Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to apply peaceful international pressure on Israel to end its oppression of Palestinians, was denied entry into the United States this week despite having valid travel documents.

Barghouti, who lives in Israel with a permanent residency status, was informed of the development on Wednesday by airline staff at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport. Staffers indicated that the US consulate in Tel Aviv was directed to bar Barghouti from traveling stateside by US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

According to the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington-based advocacy group which invited Barghouti to participate in a US speaking tour, the activist "was not provided an explanation for this denial of entry beyond that it was an ‘immigration matter.'"

Barghouti has a valid US visa through January 2021, and he was scheduled to attend various speaking events that included stops in Washington, DC, New York and Massachusetts. At the end of the trip, he intended to attend the wedding of his daughter, who lives in the US.

In a Thursday statement, Barghouti said that the US entry ban was "ideologically and politically motivated," and that it was part of "Israel's escalating repression against Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights defenders in the BDS movement for freedom, justice and equality."

"Israel is not merely continuing its decades-old system of military occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing; it is increasingly outsourcing its outrageous, McCarthyite repression to the US and to xenophobic, far-right cohorts across the world," he said.

"Supporters of Israeli apartheid in the US are desperately trying to deny US lawmakers, media, diverse audiences at universities, a bookstore and a synagogue, their right to listen, first-hand, to a Palestinian human rights advocate calling for ending US complicity in Israel's crimes against our people. But all my talks will go ahead, with me speaking online."

And so he did. For the first event, a "candid conversation" with CNN contributor Peter Beinart, Barghouti participated in the discussion through video conferencing.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201904111074051329-omar-barghouti-bds-movement-co-founder-denied-us-entry/

Notable: Demand for online sex-trafficking has dropped (Epoch Times)

Demand for online sex-trafficking has dropped as the operators of smaller sites struggle to stay afloat following the shut down of the largest human-trafficking portal in the United States, according to a new report shared with The Epoch Times by a counter-human trafficking technology company.

In April last year, President Donald Trump signed into law the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, or SESTA-FOSTA that stopped the shielding of website operators from state criminal charges or civil liability if they facilitate sex ads or prostitution. Just days later, sex-trafficking website Backpage.com, was shut down by the FBI.

The report by Childsafe.AI—the world’s first artificial intelligence platform for monitoring, graphing, and modeling child exploitation risk on the web—details how the twin acts “dramatically changed” the sex-trafficking online marketplace, specifically the distribution layer that served the underground commercial sex economy.

Now, a year later, the report explains how the industry has since been fragmented across dozens of websites, all competing fiercely for market share. No single dominant site emerged in the past year as the popularity of the online economy “remains volatile and shifts quickly.”

One key finding in the report that is prepared for use by law enforcement agencies across the United States, was that web traffic to advertising websites selling sex drew only 5-8 percent of the unique visitors individually as Backpage did at its height in 2016.

The company’s CEO, Rob Spectre, told The Epoch Times in a phone interview that the underground marketplace is now more like the “the wild west” rather than a “high-quality well-groomed advertising, channel.”

“What we are seeing overall is an evident drop in demand… a number of these operators are struggling to continue operating their services,” he said. “There is also a significant influx of scam advertising.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/online-sex-trafficking-demand-drops-after-backpage-takedown-trump-admin-policies-report_2875865.html

Notable: , >>6143628 Fresh DJT tweets and video

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116479739479449601

Notable: , >>6143064 Refresher on Clinton collusion for newfags and redpilling

BAKER

Q linked this before, great for newfags & redpilling…

Part 1 of 2

Connnecting some dots:

From 2001 to 2005 there was an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

A Grand Jury had been impaneled. Governments from around the world had donated to the “Charity”. Yet, from 2001 to 2003 none of those “Donations” to the Clinton Foundation were declared. Now you would think that an honest investigator would be able to figure this out.

Look who took over this investigation in 2005: None other than James Comey; Coincidence? Guess who was transferred into the Internal Revenue Service to run the Tax Exemption Branch of the IRS? None other than, Lois “Be on The Look Out” (BOLO) Lerner. Isn’t that interesting?

But this is all just a series of strange coincidences, right? Guess who ran the Tax Division inside the Department of Injustice from 2001 to 2005? No other than the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Rod Rosenstein.

Guess who was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during this time frame? Another coincidence (just an anomaly in statistics and chances), but it was Robert Mueller.

What do all four casting characters have in common? They all were briefed and/or were front-line investigators into the Clinton Foundation Investigation. Another coincidence, right?

Fast forward to 2009….

James Comey leaves the Justice Department to go and cash-in at Lockheed Martin. Hillary Clinton is running the State Department, official government business, on her own personal email server.

The Uranium One “issue” comes to the attention of the Hillary.

Like all good public servants do, supposedly looking out for America’s best interest, she decides to support the decision and approve the sale of 20% of US Uranium to no other than, the Russians.

Now you would think that this is a fairly straight up deal, except it wasn’t, America got absolutely nothing out of it.

However, prior to the sales approval, no other than Bill Clinton goes to Moscow, gets paid 500K for a one hour speech; then meets with Vladimir Putin at his home for a few hours. Ok, no big deal right? Well, not so fast, the FBI had a mole inside the money laundering and bribery scheme. Robert Mueller was the FBI Director during this time frame? Yep, He even delivered a Uranium Sample to Moscow in 2009.

Who was handling that case within the Justice Department out of the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland? None other than, Rod Rosenstein. And what happened to the informant? The Department of Justice placed a GAG order on him and threatened to lock him up if he spoke out about it.

How does 20% of the most strategic asset of the United States of America end up in Russian hands when the FBI has an informant, a mole providing inside information to the FBI on the criminal enterprise?

Very soon after; the sale was approved!~145 million dollars in “donations” made their way into the Clinton Foundation from entities directly connected to the Uranium One deal. Guess who was still at the Internal Revenue Service working the Charitable Division? None other than, - Lois Lerner. Ok, that’s all just another series of coincidences, nothing to see here, right?

Let’s fast forward to 2015.

Due to a series of tragic events in Benghazi and after the 9 “investigations” the House, Senate and at State Department, Trey Gowdy who was running the 10th investigation as Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi discovers that the Hillary ran the State Department on an unclassified, unauthorized, outlaw personal email server.He also discovered that none of those emails had been turned over when she departed her “Public Service” as Secretary of State which was required by law. He also discovered that there was Top Secret information contained within her personally archived email.

Sparing you the State Departments cover up, the nostrums they floated, the delay tactics that were employed and the outright lies that were spewed forth from the necks of the Kerry State Department, we shall leave it with this…… they did everything humanly possible to cover for Hillary. .

Now this is amazing, guess who became FBI Director in 2013? None other than James Comey; who secured 17 no bid contracts for his employer (Lockheed Martin) with the State Department and was rewarded with a six million dollar thank you present when he departed his employer? Amazing how all those no-bids just went right through at State, huh? Now he is the FBI Director in charge of the “Clinton Email Investigation” after of course his FBI Investigates the Lois Lerner “Matter” at the Internal Revenue Service and he exonerates her. Nope…. couldn’t find any crimes there.

Notable: , >>6143060 Erdogan worked “hand in glove” with ISIS in Syria, claims former emir.

Once Turkey Aligned with Russia, the U.S. Commissions Exposés on Erdoğan’s Collusion with ISIS

Erdogan worked “hand in glove” with ISIS in Syria, claims former emir

‘Islamic State’ terror group liaised directly with Turkish intelligence according to commander

In an explosive interview, a former ISIS commander has claimed that the terror group cooperated directly with Turkish state intelligence agencies for years on areas of “common interest”.

The source said that senior Turkish government officials had numerous meetings with ISIS representatives to coordinate activities and that this also involved providing support and safe harbour to foreign fighters in the country. President Erdogan “was working hand in glove with ISIS” according to the US government counter-terrorism consultants who interviewed the ex-ISIS official.

The relationship raises questions about Turkey’s role as a NATO ally in the Syria conflict.

The source, who served as an ISIS emir for three years, Abu Mansour al Maghrebi, was interviewed by Professor Anne Speckhard, director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and a long-time US government counter-terrorism consultant for NATO, the CIA, FBI, State Department and Pentagon, as well as by Dr Ardian Shajkovci, the ICSVE’s director of research.

Although not all of al-Maghrebi’s claims can be verified, most of them are corroborated by the claims of other whistleblowers and former ISIS personnel as previously reported by INSURGE.

Speckhard and Shakovci described Abu Mansour as a sort of ISIS diplomat to Turkey based in Raqqa, Syria.

“My issue[duties] was our [Islamic State’s] relationship with Turkish intelligence. Actually, this started when I was working at the borders,” he explained.

Originally from Morocco, Abu Mansour was an electrical engineer who went to Syria in 2013 to join ISIS. His first job with the terror group involved handling foreign fighters coming to join ISIS via Turkey. This involved liaising with a network of ISIS-paid operatives inside Turkey who would direct fighters from Istanbul to the Turkish border towns of Gaziantep, Antakya, Sanliurfa, and so on.

“Most of them were paid by Dawlah[ISIS],” Abu Mansour said, but said that those working in Turkey were usually motivated by money rather than ideology. But he acknowledged: “Many in Turkey believe and give their bayat [oath of allegiance] to Dawlah. There are ISIS guys living in Turkey, individuals and groups, but no armed groups inside Turkey.”

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/erdogan-worked-hand-in-glove-with-isis-in-syria-claims-former-emir-e83c0e6b9c3d

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Notable: James Comey: "I've never thought of" electronic surveillance as "spying."

James @Comey: "I've never thought of" electronic surveillance as "spying"

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1116440871099039746

the worm turns

Notable: City of Chicago suing Jussie Smollett.

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1116471615288594432

Notable: Hopkins man indicted for distributing fentanyl causing the deaths of eleven people.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/hopkins-man-indicted-distributing-fentanyl-causing-deaths-eleven-people

Notable: BoE's Carney says UK needs time to find Brexit consensus.

BoE's Carney says UK needs time to find Brexit consensus

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British politicians could now take some time to find a way forward on Brexit, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said on Thursday, after Prime Minister Theresa May agreed a delay of up to six months before leaving the European Union.

May, under pressure from her Conservative Party, wants to find a way to leave the EU as soon as possible after losing three votes in parliament on her preferred exit plan and missing a long-planned departure date of March 29.

Britain had been at risk of a sudden, chaotic Brexit at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) on Friday if EU leaders meeting in Brussels had not approved early on Thursday a delay until Oct. 31.

Carney, in Washington for the spring meetings of central bankers and finance ministers at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, welcomed the reduced risk of a chaotic no-deal Brexit, and said there was now a “window of time” to forge consensus.

“We will see how that time is used,” he said at a trade policy forum hosted by the Association of Marshall Scholars.

“Right up until yesterday it could be argued that the UK had run out of time to forge that consensus. There are cross-party talks to try to find that, and that may take some time,” he added.

On Tuesday, the IMF cut its 2019 growth forecast for Britain to 1.2 percent, bringing it in line with the BoE’s own outlook and pointing to the weakest outturn since the world’s fifth-largest economy was last in recession in 2009.

Carney said business uncertainty had been pushed “through the roof” by the prospect Britain could leave the EU without any temporary agreement to ensure exports did not suffer border delays or tariffs.

Much-needed investment had been put on hold since Britain voted to leave the EU in June 2016, damaging productivity and storing up economic problems for the future, he added.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-imf-worldbank-carney-uncertainty/uk-business-uncertainty-through-the-roof-boes-carney-idUKKCN1RN2J9?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&rpc=927

Said the ex-Goldman Sachs Banker

Carney spent thirteen years with Goldman Sachs. He worked in their Boston, London, New York City, Tokyo, and Toronto offices.

His progressively more senior positions included: co-head of sovereign risk; executive director, emerging debt capital markets; and managing director, investment banking. He worked on South Africa's post-apartheid venture into international bond markets, and was involved in Goldman's work with the 1998 Russian financial crisis.

In 2003, he left Goldman Sachs to join the Bank of Canada as a Deputy Governor, taking up that position. One year later, he was recruited to join the Federal Department of Finance as Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance, beginning that role on November 15, 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney#Goldman_Sachs

Notable: Fmr. CEO convicted of defrauding FDA and distributing adulterated drugs.

https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1116458987300507650

Notable: US lawmakers say Assange should be held responsible for election meddling.

US Lawmakers Say Assange Should Be Held Responsible for Election Meddling

Several US lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle in separate statements on Thursday said WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange must be held accountable for allegedly working with Russia to interfere in American elections.

"Now that Julian Assange has been arrested, I hope he will soon be held to account for his meddling in our elections on behalf of… the Russian government", US Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer said via Twitter. US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, a Republican, expressed in a press release on Thursday that Assange must face justice for working as part of the Russian intelligence services and conspiring to steal classified information.

Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that he hopes the US justice system holds Assange "to account for his crimes". Senate Vice Chairman on the Intelligence Committee Mark Warner said in a separate press release that the British courts must quickly extradite Assange to the United States so he can "finally get the justice he deserves", Warner also claimed Assange worked with Russia to help undermine the West and US security.

Republican Senator Lyndsey Graham, Congressman Eliot Engel and several other lawmakers made similar comments throughout the day. Assange was arrested in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London earlier. The UK police confirmed that the arrest had been made "on behalf of the United States authorities". Ecuador had withdrawn asylum it had earlier granted Assange. US authorities indicted Assange in connection with a federal charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, the Justice Department said in a statement on Thursday.

The computer intrusion charge carries a maximum prison sentence of five years. However, experts and former intelligence officials have said the United States could bring additional charges against Assange.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201904121074052681-usa-lawmakers-assange-election-meddling/

Notable: Jordanian Muslim tried to access Fort Bragg special ops facility faces 7 charges.

Jordanian Muslim tried to access Fort Bragg special ops facility faces 7 charges

https://twitter.com/creepingsharia/status/1116464409612836867

https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2019/03/28/muslim-lockdown-fort-bragg/

Notable: Clinton tour resumes tonight as tickets resell for 1/3 of face value.

THEY’RE BACK! Clinton tour resumes tonight as tickets resell for 1/3 of face value

Bill and Hillary’s “An Evening With The Clintons” will reopen Thursday at the Beacon Theatre in New York, and there’s still plenty of seats available at the standard admission price of $99.

A front row seat is selling for $431.45, plus fees.

Thursday’s comeback show follows several months off the campaign trail for the duo, who were stealing the spotlight from Democrats during the 2018 midterms before taking a sabbatical from their road show in December.

Former President George H.W. Bush’s death in December served as the perfect excuse to take time off as the tour struggled to fill seats, despite some tickets going for a mere $7 on StubHub, Fox News reports.

According to the tour’s website, Thursday promises to be a magical evening Clinton fans will never forget.

“Experience a one-of-a-kind conversation with two individuals who have helped shape our world and had a front seat to some of the most important moments in modern history,” reads the description for the live event. “From the American presidency to the halls of the Senate and State Department to one of the United States’ most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections, they provide a unique perspective on the past, and remarkable insight into where we go from here.”

The Clinton’s “unique perspective on the past” is something she’s worked to capitalize on in the wake of her humiliating defeat to Donald Trump in 2016, first with a book titled “What Happened” to offer excuses for her loss.

The tour will extend that conversation indefinitely at a time when Democrats vying for the presidential nomination in 2020 are attempting to court voters Hillary Clinton alienated in 2016.

The Clintons will follow up the April 11 talk in New York with stops in Detroit on Friday and Philadelphia on Saturday.

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/theyre-back-bill-hillary-speaking-tour-resumes-as-tickets-resell-for-1-3-of-face-value/

Notable: Sarah Sanders: "Thank you @IvankaTrump and @USAID Green for your commitment to women’s global economic empowerment…"

SARAH SANDERS

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1116463792425189376?s=19

Notable: Graham on Hannity: There’s ‘no doubt’ people were spying on Trump campaign.

GRAHAM ON HANNITY: There’s ‘NO DOUBT’ People Were Spying on Trump Campaign

twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116458412978704392

www.hannity.com/media-room/graham-on-hannity-theres-no-doubt-people-were-spying-on-trump-campaign/

Notable: POTUS use of 'HEROES'.

>>6141658

The first tweet from POTUS posting

HEROES

was when Q started posting.

Notable: Pence Tweet re: CBP meeting and the border crisis.

Vice President Mike Pence @VP

Briefed earlier on AF2 by @CBP Deputy Commissioner Perez & Chief Patrol Agent Tony Porvaznik on the crisis at our border. We are seeing UNPRECEDENTED numbers of border apprehensions. This is a national security and humanitarian crisis.

14:49 - 11 abr. 2019

Notable: Saudi soldiers receive UK military training.

Despite Human Rights Abuses in Yemen, Saudi Soldiers Receive UK Military Training

The British state has been under criticism for not halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia following multiple reports of human rights abuses and one of the worst human tragedies involving civilian deaths due to hunger in Yemen.

More than 40 Saudi military cadets have been receiving training in British military colleges amid human rights abuse reports against the Gulf state’s forces in Yemen, local media reported on Wednesday, Anadolu reports.

According to the information received through freedom of information channels by The Guardian, the cadets are being trained at Sandhurst, the Royal Air Force school at Cranwell and the Royal Navy College since 2015.

The British Ministry of Defense declined to inform the daily about the amounts of the contracts, the report said.

Recently, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt criticized Germany for halting arm sales to Saudi Arabia, following the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle is quoted by the newspaper as saying that Britain’s training of Saudi officers in the U.K. was “the tip of the iceberg of British enablement of the Saudi war machine to devastate the people of Yemen”.

“The government argues that helping Saudi prosecute its war crimes is stabilising the Gulf. This is a cynical, morally bankrupt and, most importantly, erroneous position taken to make money out of human suffering,” he said.

The UK has sold at least £5.7billion ($7.47 billion) worth of arms to the Saudi-led coalition, which is fighting in Yemen since 2015, according to an analysis released by Sky News last month.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/despite-human-rights-abuses-yemen-saudi-arabia-soldiers-trained-in-uk/257248/

Notable: Ecuador and US military working together again.

Found this interesting article on renewed US Ecuador military relationship, could this be a chess move in the problems with Venezuela?

https://dialogo-americas.com/en/articles/ecuador-and-us-military-work-together-again

Notable: John Solomon article: Debunking the myth that Lester Holt's interview caught Trump in obstruction.

John Solomon

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/438085-debunking-the-media-myth-that-lester-holts-interview-caught-trump-in?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Notable: Fake News media empire is dying.

Fake News media empire is dying.

We are a nation of 327,000,000 people. One any given day, the number of people actually watching fake news on cable is less than 2% of the population. Did you know than vastly more people watch the home ans garden channel, cooking channels, etc than CNN?

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/11/cnn-sinks-15th-place-maddow-viewership-still-down-double-digits/

Notable: DJT Tweet: "Beautiful afternoon in the Oval Office today with a few great American HEROES!"

New DJT w/ video

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116451747558502413

Notable: Old dig on Greg Craig.

Old post on Greg Craig – Former White House Legal Counsel for Obama

Summary: Van der Zwann worked for Skadden Arps, who was hired to prepare a report on the fairness trial of a Ukrainian politician. Van der Zwann was a lowly employee of law firm. Partners and party that engaged with Ukrainian government was Greg Craig, partner and Clifford Sloan.

Greg Craig was former White House legal counsel for Obama, as well as assistant & special counsel to Bill Clinton and part of Clinton’s defense team during impeachment. Advisor to Albright and Ted Kennedy.

Clifford Sloan was assistant WH counsel for Bill Clinton and envoy to Gitmo under John Kerry/Obama

While HRC was Secretary of State, Victor Pinchuk donated $8.6 million to Clinton foundation. Pinchuk is a backer for Ukrainian President Yanukovych who hired Skadden Arps. Email evidence of pay-for-play

https://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-clinton-foundations-pay-play-ukraine-oligarch-show-support-coup/222011/1/

John and Tony Podesta are also intertwined.

Wikileaks: Clinton Foundation’s ‘Pay-To-Play’ With Ukraine Oligarch To Show Support For Coup

The Duran — Wikileaks has just released another 1,135 John Podesta emails, bringing the total to 43,104 with seven days left until the November 8th US elections. The latest release shows more Clinton Foundation pay-to-play arrangements, but not with Morocco kings or Saudi princes, but with a Ukraine oligarch. In an email from President […]

by Mint Press News Desk

November 03rd, 2016

The Duran — Wikileaks has just released another 1,135 John Podesta emails, bringing the total to 43,104 with seven days left until the November 8th US elections.

The latest release shows more Clinton Foundation pay-to-play arrangements, but not with Morocco kings or Saudi princes, but with a Ukraine oligarch.

In an email from President Clinton’s Director of Foreign Policy, Amitabh Desai, to Hillary Clinton’s inner circle (including Huma Abedin and John Podesta), we see the Clinton Foundation’s biggest donor, billionaire Victor Pinchuk, push Hillary Clinton staff to either set up a “private” meeting with Bill Clinton (aka WJC), or “bring together a few western leaders to show support for Ukraine”…with WJC present at the event to show his commitment to “the county [sic] and for him [Victor Pinchuk].”

We are betting that Pinchuk was planning on leveraging Bill Clinton’s presence to display that the future President (via her husband) was fully behind the oligarch and his faltering plan to pivot west.

The email exchange paints a picture of a Ukraine oligarch “relentlessly following up” to expose his connection to the Clinton family, given that (as Desai wrote) Pinchuk “is under Putin’s heel right now, feeling a great degree of pressure and pain for his many years of nurturing stronger ties with the West.”

It’s important to note that Pinchuk was a big supporter of the Maidan coup…a foreign policy debacle that Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland (another Hillary Clinton state department protege) helped spearhead.

From 2009 up to 2013 (the year the Ukrainian coup erupted), the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, which is headquartered in Kiev.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-clinton-foundations-pay-play-ukraine-oligarch-show-support-coup/222011/

Notable: DJT Jr. puts NewsWeek on blast for their Fake News.

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1116450458938245120

Notable: GOP leader on 2020: We need a 'referendum on socialism'.

GOP leader on 2020: We need a 'referendum on socialism'

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday said he wants to make the 2020 presidential and Senate elections a “referendum on socialism” by pinning down Democrats on proposals like "Medicare for all" and the Green New Deal.

“We need to have a referendum on socialism,” McConnell told a group of reporters when asked for his assessment of next year’s elections, when Senate Republicans will have to defend 22 seats, compared with12 for Democrats.

“I’m going to be arguing, and I’m encouraging my colleagues to argue, that we are the firewall against socialism in this country,” McConnell added.

He said Republicans need to make the case to the American people, “if you’re uncomfortable with things like the Green New Deal and Medicare for none, the best way to avoid that is to have a Republican Senate."

McConnell predicted that Republicans would have a target-rich environment with at least five Democratic presidential candidates backing Medicare for all legislation and at least six supporting the Green New Deal, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) ambitious plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

“We’ve got five credible candidates for president in the Senate signed up for the Green New Deal and Medicare for none. If we can’t make that case, we ought to go into another line of work,” he said.

McConnell argues that will be the key to reversing the drop in support among women and college graduates that hurt Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections, when Democrats won back the House and captured GOP-held Senate seats in Arizona and Nevada.

He said Republicans lost races last year because “we got crushed in the suburbs.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/438522-gop-leader-on-2020-we-need-a-referendum-on-socialism

Notable: Three men convicted of running sex trafficking ring.

Three Men Convicted of Running Sex Trafficking Ring

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-men-convicted-running-sex-trafficking-ring

Notable: Jim Jordan releases report on Democrat fear-mongering about the census citizenship question.

https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1116425664658321423?s=19

Notable: Stefanik moves to prevent Comey-era spy abuses at FBI.

Stefanik Moves To Prevent Comey-Era Spy Abuses At FBI

APRIL 11, 2019 By Mollie Hemingway

Elise Stefanik, a Republican lawmaker who sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, introduced legislation Wednesday that would require the FBI director to promptly inform Congress when investigations of candidates for federal office are undertaken by federal law enforcement or intelligence authorities.

Two years ago, when then-FBI Director James Comey finally notified Congress that he’d opened up a counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign the previous year, some members were deeply troubled. Not only was the FBI director not supposed to hide his counterintelligence work from a key group of congressional members who receive his briefings, he was supposed to notify them in particular about politically sensitive probes.

The legislation from Stefanik, a two-term representative from New York, addresses a loophole in current law that allowed Comey to unilaterally withhold that information from key congressional oversight bodies. In a March 2016 hearing, Comey admitted to Stefanik that he did not follow the typical protocols or procedures regarding notifying Congress about the opening of a counterintelligence investigation in part because he was not required to do so.

Pressed to explain why he waited nine months to brief the leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees, he admitted he was supposed to provide quarterly updates but had refused to do so regarding the Trump-Russia probe for the same reason many thought he should have done so. “I think our decision was, it was a matter of such sensitivity that we wouldn’t include it in the quarterly briefings,” he said.

Comey suggested in testimony that he did not make the decision to hide the information from Congress, placing the blame on the “head of our counterintelligence division.” But Bill Priestap, the former assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, told a joint congressional committee it was Comey himself who made the decision to hide the existence of the anti-Trump spy operation from Congress.

“Mr. Comey was involved in those notifications. I was not,” Priestap told lawmakers. “I don’t instruct Mr. Comey, nor did I ever instruct him to do anything.” When Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked him point-blank “Who made the decision not to brief Congress in this particular instance?” Priestap said, “Mr. Comey.”

Stefanik’s legislation would formalize the requirement of quarterly updates on counterintelligence briefings. In addition, it would require the FBI director to “promptly notify” the committees if the agency was investigating any candidate for federal office, any candidate’s campaign, or any individual known to be affiliated with a campaign.

The Trump-Russia probe from the 2016 campaign touched off a massive scandal that included wiretaps of private citizens, weaponization of campaign-funded opposition research, the deployment of overseas intelligence assets against American citizens, and allegations that America’s top law enforcement and intelligence officials were attempting a soft coup of the duly-elected president of the United States. That probe, thanks to strategic leaks from intelligence officials, then folded into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling two-year-long investigation. It resulted in zero charges related to collusion or conspiracy with Russia to steal the election from Hillary Clinton.

Attorney General William Barr acknowledged the spy operation before the Senate Wednesday, and said he is reviewing the origins of the probe.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/11/stefanik-moves-to-prevent-comey-era-spy-abuses-at-fbi/

Notable: JA: As if someone threw shit into a fan.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8843073/julian-assange-was-arrested-after-smearing-poo-all-over-the-walls-of-ecuadorian-embassy-minister-reveals/

Notable: Nunes sends criminal-referral notice to AG in Russia probe.

He finally sent it!

=NEWS=

EXCLUSIVE: Nunes sends criminal-referral notice to AG in Russia probe

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-sends-criminal-referral-notification-to-barr-alleges-several-potential-violations-in-russia-probe

Notable: Comey claims he has no idea what Barr is talking about re: Spying.

Of course he knows EXACTLY what Barr is talking about.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1116412829203095555

Notable: 1,000 Pounds of meth seized by Mexican authorities.

1,000 Pounds of Meth Seized by Mexican Authorities

Elements of the Mexican Federal Police, Mexican Army, and Mexican Navy seized more than 1045 pounds of methamphetamine and 3.5 tons (7054.7 pounds) of marijuana. The seizures took place in three separate operations during the last week in the northern Mexican border states of Baja California and Sonora.

The first incident took place on April 3 at the Tijuana airport when Mexican federal police assigned to customs inspections in the section which received incoming parcels. During random inspections, agents received an alert from a K-9 drug detection dog on a substance contained within seven large plastic containers. The containers originated from Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes — a state located in central Mexico. The K-9 alerted to a second container which originated from Campeche, Campeche which was also determined to contain, methamphetamine. The total weight of both seizures totaled 201 kilograms, or 443 pounds, according to local media reports. The methamphetamine seized was in liquid form.

The next seizure occurred on April 4 when Mexican Navy personnel assigned to the San Felipe and Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) sector seized approximately four tons of marijuana and methamphetamine in the vicinity of the Gulf of Santa Clara, Baja California. According to the government officials, Mexican Navy (SEMAR) carried out surveillance in the area north of San Felipe, BC based on intelligence developed on illegal drug activity in the area where organized crime has been transporting illicit cargo by sea. Navy personnel spotted two suspicious vessels which fled after being spotted. Navy personnel eventually located the two abandoned vessels containing more than 3,200 kilograms (7,054 pounds) of marijuana and 160 kilograms (352 pounds) of methamphetamine.

The final seizure took place in the Mexican border city of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, which sits directly across the border from San Luis, Arizona. According to local media reports, personnel of the Federal Attorney General’s office executed a search warrant at a residence in San Luis Río Colorado after being tipped off by elements of the Mexican Army. According to a statement from the state attorney general’s office, law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at a residence after an individual fled from security elements into the house. A search by investigators resulted in the discovery of granular substance believed to be methamphetamine with a weight of 39 kilograms (86 pounds) and a liquid substance believed to be methamphetamine with a weight of just over 74 kilograms (163 pounds). The total weight of both the granular and liquid meth came out to 250 pounds. Investigators also seized an AR-15 rifle with extra ammo and magazine.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/04/11/1000-pounds-of-meth-seized-by-mexican-authorities/

Notable: Every House Democrat but one cosponsors bill intended to let biological male athletes compete against females in pubic schools.

Every House Democrat but one cosponsors bill intended to let biological male athletes compete against females in pubic schools

Only two Republicans are cosponsoring the Equality Act

All the Democrats in the House of Representatives except one are cosponsoring a bill that's intended, in part, to allow biological male athletes who identify as females to compete against biological females in public schools.

The Equality Act would broadly amend civil rights legislation to outlaw discrimination against LGBTQ people in employment, housing, public accommodations, jury service, education, federal programs and credit, NBC News reported. The bill's specific language prohibits discrimination based on peoples' "sexual orientation and gender identity."

But some cosponsors and supporters of the bill are looking at the bill as an avenue to allow transgender athletes in public schools to compete on teams that match their gender identities — which has become a contentious issue nationwide of late.

What do supporters and cosponsors say regarding transgender athletes?

Democratic House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (N.Y.) offered the following in his opening statement last week about the Equality Act:

Many states have sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination laws, and all of them still have women's sports. Arguments about transgender athletes participating in sports in accordance with their gender identity having competitive advantages have not been borne out. Sports have positive impacts on physical, social, and emotional well-being, and we should not be denying transgender athletes those opportunities simply because sometimes they may win. Nor should their occasional success be used as a roadblock to advancing civil rights legislation for LGBT people as a whole.

Sarah Warbelow — director of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group — championed the Equality Act in written testimony to the House and echoed Nadler's words, saying it's a myth that transgender female athletes have unfair advantages over biological female athletes:

Opponents of equality in athletics for transgender athletes have argued that girls who are transgender have unfair physiological advantages over cisgender girls and as a result, will dominate women's competitive sports. Some have also suggested that girls who are transgender pose a threat to their cisgender teammates both on the field and in shared locker rooms. None of these arguments are rooted in fact. Existing evidence shows that denying opportunities and access to students based on their gender identity causes actual harm to those students, while there is no data to suggest that girls who are transgender are dominating athletics or posing a harm to their cisgender counterparts.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrats-push-bill-intended-to-let-males-compete-in-womens-sports

Notable: Here’s why the book Julian Assange was holding when he was arrested is vitally important.

Here’s Why the Book Julian Assange Was Holding When He Was Arrested is Vitally Important

As he was dragged from the embassy in handcuffs, Julian Assange managed to grab a very important book.

On Thursday, several men in black suits, surrounded by a dozen cops, raided the Ecuadorian embassy in London and kidnapped Julian Assange. Moments later, the Department of Justice released a statement charging Assange with computer hacking “conspiracy” for allegedly working with US Army soldier at the time, Chelsea Manning. Assange was in handcuffs when he was brought out and as he was being dragged from the embassy, he managed to grab the book, Gore Vidal: History of the National Security State. As he was shoved into the van, Assange held the book facing forward so that it could be seen by the camera.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/heres-why-the-book-julian-assange-was-holding-when-he-was-arrested-is-vitally-important/

Notable: Ohio governor signs bill banning abortion after 1st detectable heartbeat, one of the nation's toughest restrictions.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1116428687203799045

Notable: Coinbase crypto exchange launches Visa-enabled payments card.

Coinbase Crypto Exchange Launches Visa-Enabled Payments Card

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-11/coinbase-crypto-exchange-launches-visa-enabled-payments-card

One world currency?

Notable: US Army: "Protecting the skies from the ground…"

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Rt… just now

https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1116099836154138624?s=19